“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.” ShouldLooksDecidedCriticsBillboards Author:Mark Tobey
“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.” IfsWorldShouldFirstsSeemsHumanityUnderstandingBecomingPeriodsMembersFirst TimeShould HaveDiscoveringIdiom Author:Mark Tobey
“I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.” ShouldBelieveActionI BelieveMeditationPaintingSerenityAvenuesCanals Author:Mark Tobey
“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.” MenShouldSpaceToo MuchConditionsFactorsShould IAccusedThrustExperimentation Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief
