Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much… — Alton Tobey Alive Copy Share Image
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Aesthetic 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… — Alton Tobey Art Copy Share Image
There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition… — Alton Tobey Color 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… — Alton Tobey Creating 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… — Alton Tobey Deliberate 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… — Alton Tobey Break 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… — Alton Tobey Conscious 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,… — Alton Tobey Art 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,… — Alton Tobey Art Copy Share Image
