What a vision I’ll have. I shall compete with the color organ. Saw one of the eight sets last night - truly - a wonderful new art I feel, wonderful space with the blue lifting one above into other space activities.
„But why in Hell didn’t you paint in 7 by 4 feet. I only buy large ones." Make them so big they can’t breath anymore - just lifeless relics! (August, Seattle 1955)


Mark Tobey, Selected notes

The old Chinese used to say: „It is better to feel a painting than to look at it.“ So much today is only to look at. It is one thing to paint a picture and another to experience it; in attempting to find on what level one accepts this experience, one discovers what one sees and on what level the discovery takes place. Christopher Columbus left in search of one world and discovered another.

The cult of space can become as dull as that of the object. 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 a balanced mind - and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

My whole experience until I was sixteen was just purely nature. Not the mind at all, just nature.

Artists don’t repeat but always change as nature does.

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

I am accused often of too much experimentation, but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition? I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do. The gods of the past are as dead today as they were when Christianity overcame the pagan world. The time is similar, only the arena is the whole world.