The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

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

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

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

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

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