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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-it-is-better-to-have-two-colors-in/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

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## More by Marsden Hartley

> [It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/it-is-the-incongruous-thing-in-my-entire-life-this-isolation-my-work/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/they-are-the-gateway-for-our-modern-esthetic-development-the-prophets/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/it-is-never-difficult-to-see-images-when-the-principle-of-the-image/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/i-harp-always-on-the-idea-of-life-as-i-dwell-perpetually-on-the/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/i-don-t-want-to-escape-via-intellectual-ruses-i-want-affirmations-via/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/by-getting-as-close-to-the-true-idea-of-religion-of-spirituality-as/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/my-work-has-the-abstraction-underneath-it-all-now-what-i-deliberately/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/a-reaction-to-be-pleasant-must-be-simple/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 symbolism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/all-things-that-are-living-are-expression-and-therefore-part-of-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/every-painter-must-traverse-for-himself-that-distance-from-paris-to/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/i-was-happily-contended-to-be-climbing-the-heights-and-the-clouds-by/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/the-virtue-of-yankee-upbringing-spiritually-speaking-is-of-more/)

[Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/)

> [My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/my-work-embodies-little-visions-of-the-great-intangible-some-will-say/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/the-essential-of-a-real-picture-is-that-the-things-which-occur-in-it/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-it-is-better-to-have-two-colors-in/)

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