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

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

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

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

- 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…

- Mark Tobey

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

- 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…

- Mark Tobey

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

- Mark Tobey

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

- Mark Tobey