My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pen…

- Alton Tobey

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a …

- Alton Tobey

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and develo…

- Alton Tobey

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique qua…

- Alton Tobey

I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete e…

- Alton Tobey

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree o…

- Alton Tobey

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

- Alton Tobey

I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion -…

- Alton Tobey

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distast…

- Alton Tobey