"I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value..."

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Source : "Abstract Expressionism". Book by Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, p. 60, 2006.

Mark Tobey

#Painting Quotes #Values Quotes

“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.”
“Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.”
“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”
“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.”
“What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”
“Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.”
“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”

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