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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.”

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Author:Mark Tobey
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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.”

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Book:Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961 Whitechapel Gallery, London 1962
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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.”

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Book:Mark Tobey, a new look: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, February 19-March 27, 1988
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