My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
