By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things. — 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… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
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
