Marsden Hartley, 1942.  Photo by George Platt Lynes.

“I believe until a man has given up himself he has given up nothing - all his knowledge of accepted aesthetics are of no avail until he has stepped aside from them and given up himself – himself only through the eyes of himself.”

Letter to Alfred Sieglitz, June 1911, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott.