Top 7 Marsden Hartley Quotes (2025 Update)

Marsden Hartley Quote: “A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.”

1. “A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.”

Marsden Hartley Quote: “It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.”

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

3. “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

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

— Marsden Hartley

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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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