8 Quotes by Marsden Hartley

What have we all, wewho have nothing left but longing to be freeof our lashed satiety.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

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

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.

I harp always on the ‘idea’ of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

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.

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.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world – it is like operetta in prose – all so flowery and heavenlike.