Charles Burchfield, Journals, August 28, 1936

“—painting their reactions to their times and to the life they lived with freedom, doing work that can stand comparison with the work of any period, for we must remember that art changes but does not develop.“ (Allen Tucker: Design & the Idea)

“So much work today is so well done—pictures and stories so competent, so neat, so finished as to surface, so void of mistakes, so knowing, so lacking in recklessness, so timid, played so safe, so made for the market, so lacking in hope and life and reach, so entirely worthless, that one is relieved when one sees a man go after a big idea and fail—a big failure is better than a little success.” (Taken from ditto above—the underscoring is mine)

Charles Burchfield, August 28, 1936