Quote#Art
I have joined, once and for all, the ranks of the intellectual…
Quote byMarsden Hartley · 1877–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Art and the Personal Life', Marsden Hartley, 1928, n.p..
English (original)
I have joined, once and for all, the ranks of the intellectual experimentalists. I can hardly bear the sound of the words "expressionism," "emotionalism," "personality," and such, because they imply the wish to express personal life, and I prefer to have no personal life. Personal art is for me a matter of spiritual indelicacy.
— Marsden Hartley
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