Quotes from Charles E. Burchfield

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.