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.
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
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
A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple. - Marsden Hartley
A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.
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
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…
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
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive sym…
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
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…
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 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…
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul. - Marsden Hartley
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.
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 don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. - Marsden Hartley
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
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