Mark Tobey

“The Orient seems at times to be my own backyard. I have been there so many times.”

“A painter should be a plus, a battery, a dynamo, and not a vacuum cleaner.”

“Lines are very exciting. A line is the trace of a point in motion.”

“My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.”

“Today, everything is getting mixed. There is no more East and West. We are producing a universal man.”

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

“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.”

“I feel that I'm a citizen of the world.”

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

“We had to break up the color. We had to get away from the old idea of the object.”

“I've had to change my style a number of times. I'd just get a little bored with it.”