Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empa… - Hans Hofmann

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 Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull. Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

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

In nature, light creates the color; in the picture, color creates light. Every color shade emanates a very characteristic light — no substitute is possible.