Abstraction Quote by Mark Tobey Download Open image “We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.” — Mark Tobey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Doe Fit Men
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz 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
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
