Marsden Hartley Quotes

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My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

Marsden Hartley

They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.

Marsden Hartley

Cubism taught me much and the principle of Pissarro, furthered by Seurat, taught me more. These with Cezanne are the great logicians of color.
No one will ever paint like Cezanne for example, because no one will ever have his peculiar visual gifts; or to put it less dogmatically, will anyone ever appear again with so peculiar and almost unbelievable a faculty for dividing color sensations and making logical realizations of them? Has anyone ever placed his color more reasonably with more of a sense of time and measure than he? I think not, and he furnished for the enthusiast of today new reasons for research into the realm of color for itself.

Marsden Hartley

Of his mythical paintings like 'Tollan, Aztec Legend':

Blake would not laugh at my fantasies if he saw them [in contrary to the public in New York, as Hartley realized well, before]

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

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Born: January 4, 1877

Died: September 2, 1943 (aged 66)

Bio: Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.

Known for:

Portrait of a German Officer (1914)
Pueblo Mountain (1918)
Hall of the Mountain King (1909)
Valley Road (1920)

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