Marsden Hartley Quote

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.


letter to Adelaide Kuntz, November 6, 1935; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 169


I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.