I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.