Existence Quote 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…

— Marsden Hartley

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

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Marsden Hartley

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Marsden Hartley

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

— 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…

— Marsden Hartley