28 Quotes by Mark Tobey

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..

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

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

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

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

You don't want to help the young too much,it will just weaken them and they'll only resent it.

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.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.