Quotes by Mark Tobey - Page 1

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Reality
Symbols
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The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Broke
Figures
Used
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On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Bark
Found
Pavement
Tree
World
Trees
Worlds
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We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Men
Doe
Fit
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Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
Mark Tobey / Painter
Artist
Problem
Today
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We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Looks
Mountain
Painting
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I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Painting
Related
Values
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Action
Avenues
Believe
Meditation
Painting
Serenity
Rather
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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.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Helping
Too Much
Want
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The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Space
Artist
Essentials
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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.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Expression
Form
Spirit
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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 / Painter
Artist
Expression
Individual
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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Billboards
Critics
Decided
Looks
Should
According
Critic
Look More Like
Looked
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White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Ideas
Movement
White
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We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Agreement
Ego
Water
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Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Flower
Garden
Japan
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I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Men
Space
Too Much
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But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Creating
Moon
Self
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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 the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Confused
Sex
Two
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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 through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Break Through
Eggs
Important
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The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Space
Creative
Serenity
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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 when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.
Mark Tobey / Painter
Humanity
Should Have
Understanding
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