Colors Must Fit Together As Pieces In

The Difference Between The Arts Arises Because Of The Difference In The Nature Of The Mediums Of Expression And The Emphasis Induced By The Nature Of Each Medium. Each Means Of Expression Has Its Own Order Of Being, Its Own Units.

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 Through Paint Not Through Words."

An Idea Can Only Be Materialized With The Help Of A Medium Of Expression, The Inherent Qualities Of Which Must Be Surely Sensed And Understood In Order To Become The Carrier Of An Idea

The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

People Say 'hofmann Has Different Styles'. I Have Not. I Have Different Moods; I Am Not Two Days The Same Man.