I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
