I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.


letter to Alfred Stieglitz, February 8, 1913; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 44

Marsden Hartley Quotes

I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as...

I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as...

I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as...

I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as...