We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.
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
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?
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…
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.
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.
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…
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol. - Mark Tobey
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
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.
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…
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