Mark Tobey Quotes

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Mark Tobey

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• There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Up
  • High
  • Kind

• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Painting

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • Focus

• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • May
  • Mountain

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Mountain

• The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Painting
  • Look
  • Craft

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Think
  • Say
  • Fair

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Green

• There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Running
  • Dark
  • Winning

• Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Band

• Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Results
  • Plans

• We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

  

  Mark Tobey
  • Painting
  • Mountain