Marsden Hartley Short Quotes

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I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

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It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

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.. the virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

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

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The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

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[I was] happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

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

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..[Picasso had] a depth of understanding and insight into the inwardness of things.... doing very exceptional things of a most abstract psychic nature..

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My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

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I am not a 'book of the month' artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art.

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They [The Mason family where Hartley stayed 1935 - 1941] maintain an enviable balance between the material & spiritual worlds (so) they symbolize for me the term ideal.

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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]

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.. by getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.... we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

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