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

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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.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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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.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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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.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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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.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
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I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.
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We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.