Mark Tobey Quotes

#1. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A.J. Liebling

#2. We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Mark Tobey

#3. 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

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

Mark Tobey

#5. 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

#6. I'm aware that I should end a joke with the good part, I choose not too.

Daniel Tosh

#7. 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

#8. Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

J.K. Rowling

#9. MFA program at the University of Michigan when we met.

Jennifer Coburn

#10. 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

#11. A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle ... a life that avoids conflict never changes. We must live making sounds like the stream of water ... we can produce beautiful sounds in our lives by colliding with obstacles.

Ilchi Lee

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

Mark Tobey

#13. Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

Mark Tobey

#14. Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Miguel De Cervantes

#15. Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

Mark Tobey

#16. I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value ...

Mark Tobey

#17. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

Vicente Fox

#18. If you want to write about life, you have to write about death.

Marty Rubin

#19. Prayer changes things, but it ultimately changes the one who prays.

Suzanne Eller

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

Mark Tobey

#21. 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

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

Mark Tobey

#23. 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

#24. Soon the purple dark must bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose

Donald Justice

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

Mark Tobey

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

Jack Lynch

#29. The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? PROVERBS 20:24 NLT

Joel Osteen

#30. The slithery shapes had evaporated, and in their place Mason could see a silhouette. Long hair seemed to blow, as if in a soft breeze. Mason looked back at his daddy. "You can shut it. I'll be okay.

Brandon Witt

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

Mark Tobey

#32. Don't lose faith in the people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Just die. It'll end everyone's misery, including your own.

Karen Marie Moning

#34. 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