A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

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

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

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

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

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

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