Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 24, 1961

I think of myself, artist-wise, as being a perfectly happy man, living in an environment that is exactly suited to me. [Although] this is a vast industrial region, and all the roads are infested with thousands of automobiles, trucks and what not, nevertheless my [connection] to the earth and sky is as primitive and elemental as it must have been to man thousands of years ago. And if I lived a thousand years, I could never get down on paper the ideas for pictures that throng my mind. I thank god for creating me and allowing me to live in his world.

Charles E. Burchfield, August 24, 1961