Top 25 Marsden Hartley Quotes
#2. My work embodies little visions of the great intangible ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.
Marsden Hartley
#3. All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
#4. Shit, you name it, they're performing. The D-Bags, Bending Cupid, the Mighty Storm, Black Falcon, and my fav band
K. Bromberg
#5. There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.
Shiri Appleby
#6. It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz
Jim Butcher
#7. 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.
Marsden Hartley
#8. The sense of form in New Mexico is for me one of the profoundest, most original, and most beautiful I have personally experienced. It must be 'learned.' . . . It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light.
Marsden Hartley
#9. 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.
Marsden Hartley
#10. 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
#11. (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
#12. 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.
Marsden Hartley
#13. All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.
Tiffany King
#14. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
J. Edgar Hoover
#15. Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. 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.
Marsden Hartley
#18. Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!
Jane Austen
#19. The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
Douglas Booth
#21. I tend to deal with most issues with humor ... always have and always will.
Gordon Gee
#22. The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Marsden Hartley
#23. I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
Marsden Hartley
#24. My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.
Marsden Hartley
#25. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.
Marsden Hartley
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