Marsden Hartley Quotes

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

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

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.

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.