Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.

Mark Tobey's Popular Quotes

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.

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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…

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The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

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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…

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

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

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Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

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

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