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Art Quote by Mark Tobey

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.” quote by Mark Tobey — Download Open image

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

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I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

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At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

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Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

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Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

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On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

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There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and…

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Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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