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….

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

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect….

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space..

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art..

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless th….

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

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal….

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

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

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic consider….

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the futur….

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

Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all moveme….

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so..

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

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

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….

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..