The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an… — 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
