Quotes by 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 believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

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

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.