Mark Tobey Quotes
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 I had been too long above my boots.
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
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 into space as science and the rest do.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
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.
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.
