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

— Marsden Hartley

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..the virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

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.

..[Picasso had] a depth of understanding and insight into the inwardness of things.. ..doing very exceptional things of a most abstract psychic nature..

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

I am not a 'book of the month' artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art.

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