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..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

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

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 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.

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