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> [Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/mark-tobey-fills-his-canvases-with-elliptical-calligraphic-lines/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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