Marsden Hartley

Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets Marsden Hartley

Adventures in the Arts, Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets "The artist remains the artist precisely in so far as he rejects the simplifying and reducing process of the average man who at an early age puts Life away into some snug conception of his mind and race. This one turns the key. He has released his will and love from the vast Ceremonial of wonder, from the deep Poem of Being, into some particular detail of life wherein he hopes to achieve comfort or at least shun pain. Not so, the artist. In the moment when he elects to avoid by whatever makeshift the raw agony of life, he ceases to be fit to create. He must face experience forever freshly..."