Marsden Hartley Quotes

• I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.

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  Real, Secret, Trying

  Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as quoted in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 168, September 7, 1933.

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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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  Soul, Principles, Embedded

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, 1988.

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• A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

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  Simple, Reactions, Pleasant

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.3, Hol Art Books

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• My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

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  Mad, Heaven, Vision

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 25, 1988.

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• I have come to the conclusion that it is better to have two colors in right relation to each other than to have a vast confusion of emotional exuberance. . . I had rather be intellectually right than emotionally exuberant.

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  Emotional, Color, Two

  Marsden Hartley, Gail R. Scott (1982). “On art”, Horizon Pr

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• All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism is extraneous, and from my point of view, useless art. Anyone who understands life needs no handbook of poetry or philosophy to tell him what it is.

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  Art, Philosophy, Views

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.97, Hol Art Books

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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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  Ideas, Moments, Harps

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.9, Hol Art Books

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• 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 a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.

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  Fashion, Real, Fire

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by by Gail R. Scott, p. 49; reprinted in "On art", p. 62, 1988.

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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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  Perfect, Landscape, Realistic

  "Marsden Hartley" by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, New York (p. 68), 1988.

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• 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 have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.

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  Expectations, Sacred, Firsts

  Letter to Adelaide Kuntz; as cited in "Marsden Hartley", by Gail R. Scott, 1988, p. 130, October 24, 1939.

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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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  Intellectual, Passionate, Want

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• Al acercarnos tanto como nos sea posible a la verdadera idea de religión, de espiritualidad... ...estaríamos en posesión de la única relación tangible tot la deidad en las cosas.

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  Ideas, Would Be, Tangible

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 44, 1988.

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• 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.

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  Essence, Landscape, Saws

  Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.

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  Fire, Stronger, Energy

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• 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 Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

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  Distance, Expression, Paris

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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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  Past, Yankees, Heritage

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 11, 1988.

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• They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.

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  Expression, Essentials, Needs

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books

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• Es lo más incongruente de toda mi vida, este aislamiento. ... Mi trabajo lo requiere - pero yo mismo no tengo ninguna necesidad o uso para ello - Tal vez una vez en un tiempo me encontré con el aislamiento imperativo - Creo que todas las crisálidas hacer - todos los embriones van para el envés de la hoja en el momento de cuerpo-cambio de preparación para la reafirmación final - resurrección - el establecimiento de la entidad. Pero ahora he salido al exterior de mis envolturas.

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  Thinking, Finals, Needs

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 151, 1988.

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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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  Travel, Reading, Joy

  Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press

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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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  Clouds, Climbing, Mountain

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 8, 1988.

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• el lugar (Dogtown, en Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) está abandonado y es majestuosamente hermoso, como si la naturaleza hubiera formado por fin un lugar donde puede vivir para sí misma sola... (parecía) un cruce entre la Isla de Pascua y Stonehenge - esencialmente druídico en su apariencia, da la sensación de que una raza antigua podría aparecer en cualquier momento y renovar un rito sin edad allí.

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  Easter, Islands, Race

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