Charles E. Burchfield Quotes

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

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Art, Mean, Hands

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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.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Color, Tree, Listening

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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

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Children, Learning, Fighting

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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

  Eye, Thinking, Views

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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.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Artist, Color, Play

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• Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Sight, Lost, Starting

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