to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or u…

- Malvina Hoffman

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

- Malvina Hoffman

Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visi…

- Malvina Hoffman

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession…

- Malvina Hoffman

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

- Malvina Hoffman