Marsden Hartley in his quotes on painting, spirituality & life - free resource, American art history

Marsden Hartley in quotes - the artist on his painting, life & spirituality - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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Marsden Hartley’s artist quotes describe his long stays in Europe as American painter, his focus on landscape and his strong admiration for the French artist Paul Cezanne. Frequently he emphasizes the relation between his art and spirituality. Hartley read spiritual writers in the U.S. as William Blake and Emerson again and again. He loved poetry and wrote a lot of spiritual poetry himself; he refused to talk intellectually about art and his art.

Hartley was an artist of American Modernism, but despite that he traveled a lot in Europe in the 1910’s as a young painter. So he got connected with European artists: Cezanne (who painted in Aix de Provence], Kandinsky and Franz Marc.
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Some selected artist-quotes of American artist Marsden Hartley - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’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.’ - quote of Hartley in a letter to Seumus O’Sheel, Oct. 1908, Hartley Archive

• ’What I have to express is not handled with words. It must ‘come’ tot the observer. It must carry its influence over the mind of the individual into that region of him which is more than the mind. The pictures… …they are merely artistic expressions of mystical states’ - quote from Hartley’s letter to American art-dealer Alfred Stieglitz, Sept. 1913

• ’the place (Dogtown, Massachusetts) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone… …essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.’ - quote of Hartly in: ‘Somehow a Past’, 1933 - c, 1939, unpublished manuscript
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  selection of free art-resources on American artist Marsden Hartley:

  • extended biographical notes on Marsden, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsden_Hartley
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Hartley, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marsden_Hartley
  • images of his painting art, on Wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marsden_Hartley
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]