According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
