To Me, Art Is The Glorification Of

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 Movement And Rhythm - Time And Light, Color And Mood - In Short, All Reality In Form And Thought.

I Can't Understand How Anyone Is Able To Paint Without Optimism. Despite The General Pessimistic Attitude In The World Today, I Am Nothing But An Optimist.

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.

The Creative Process Lies Not In Imitating, But In Paralleling Nature - Translating The Impulse Received From Nature Into The Medium Of Expression, Thus Vitalizing This Medium. The Picture Should Be Alive, The Statue Should Be Alive, And Every Work Of Art Should Be Alive.