My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. . . . Some will say he's gone mad … - Marsden Hartley

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Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

Marsden Hartley

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.

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

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I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live. . . . The great secret. . . . is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.

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I have come to the conclusion that it is better to have two colors in right relation to each other than to have a vast confusion of emotional exuberance. . . I had rather be intellectually right than emotionally exuberant.

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The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion. . . . the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.

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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.

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