The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but…

- Marsden Hartley

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Grec…

- Marsden Hartley

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

- Marsden Hartley

All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive sym…

- Marsden Hartley

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 lan…

- Marsden Hartley

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

- Marsden Hartley

I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I hav…

- Marsden Hartley

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

- Marsden Hartley

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

- Marsden Hartley