Artist Quote by Mark Tobey Download Open image “The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.” — Mark Tobey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Broke Cubists Cubists Used Figure Figure Broke Figures Used Used Figure
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That's kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It's been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
In my house, there is an old Chinese cabinet full of little figurines on two shelves. They are for my daughter, to tell stories.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary… — E. J. Hughes 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
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
