The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing

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

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

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