Quotes from Mark Tobey

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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