Clergyman's

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.
- Mark Tobey

I have just had my first lesson in Chinese brush from my friend and artist Teng Kwei. The tree is no more solid in the earth, breaking into lesser solids in the earth, breaking into lesser solids bathed in chiaroscuro. There is pressure and release. Each movement, like tracks in the snow, is recorded and often loved for itself. The Great Dragon is breathing sky, thunder and shadow; wisdom and spirit vitalized. All is in motion now.. .One step backward into the past and the tree in front of my studio in Seattle is all rhythm, lifting, springing upward.
- Mark Tobey

I have just had my first lesson in Chinese brush from my friend and artist Teng Kwei. The tree is no more solid in the earth, breaking into lesser solids in the earth, breaking into lesser solids bathed in chiaroscuro. There is pressure and release. Each movement, like tracks in the snow, is recorded and often loved for itself. The Great Dragon is breathing sky, thunder and shadow; wisdom and spirit vitalized. All is in motion now.. .One step backward into the past and the tree in front of my studio in Seattle is all rhythm, lifting, springing upward.
- Mark Tobey

It is Fall. The leaves are being raked under the great elms darkening in the evening light. Slowly they become weighted with darkness. Across the river they are burning the grass on the Minnesota bluffs. Myriads of colored streamers reflect in the river blow..
- Mark Tobey

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

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

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

I have sought a unified world in my work and use a movable vortex to achieve it.
- Mark Tobey

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
- Mark Tobey

I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night.
- Mark Tobey