Our entire being is nourished by color.

- Hans Hofmann

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

- Hans Hofmann

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

- Hans Hofmann

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

- Hans Hofmann

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

- Hans Hofmann

Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynami…

- Hans Hofmann

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

- Hans Hofmann

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

- Hans Hofmann

The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living…

- Hans Hofmann