Charles E. Burchfield quotes
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“Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.”
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“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”
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“An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.”
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“Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.”
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“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.”
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“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.”
-- Charles E. Burchfield
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”
Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183
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“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : 1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun. 85th birthday interview.
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