But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. - Mark Tobey
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
- Mark Tobey
I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward… - Mark Tobey
I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward…
Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if… - Mark Tobey
Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if…
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you. - Mark Tobey
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol. - Mark Tobey
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space. - Mark Tobey
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human? - Mark Tobey
Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We'v… - Mark Tobey
There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We'v…
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. - Mark Tobey
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
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