“I have sought a unified world in my work and use a movable vortex to achieve it.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, 2006, p. 60
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“I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.”
March 23, 1783
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
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