Artist Quotes by Mark Tobey

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

— Mark Tobey

Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break…

— Mark Tobey

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

— Mark Tobey

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

— 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

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

— Mark Tobey

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we…

— Mark Tobey

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

— 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…

— Mark Tobey

Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding…

— Mark Tobey

But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The…

— Mark Tobey

The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than…

— Mark Tobey

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

— Mark Tobey

You don't want to help the young too much,it will just weaken them and they'll only resent it.

— Mark Tobey