New Mexico quotes

“And New Mexico with its strange depraved topography; earth-forms fitting into each other like coupling organs; strawberry-pink mountains dotted by fuzzy-poison shrubs, recalling breasts and wombs of clay; clouds like sky sailing featherbeds is in the pastels and oils done in the Southwest.”
Paul Rosenfeld on Marsden Hartley's work, Port of New York (1924)

“I kept repeating, the most American place,”
Paul Rosenfield to Alfred Stieglitz, July 18, 1926

"The moving was over and done.”
Willa Cather. The Professor's House (1925)

“I imagine it will be quite a time before artistic New Mexico lives down the influx of gabbling and vain women, of priggish aesthetes, minor poets and fairies which followed the War.”
Thomas Hart Benton. An Artist in America (1937)