To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction..

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spirit….

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression o….

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….

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation ….

Painters must speak through paint, not through words..

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak t….

Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Re….

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..

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind..

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

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light..

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

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

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality ..

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete o….

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 a….

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

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisf….

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spirit….