Charles Burchfield, from 50 Years as a Painter

1915 was the year that ideas came to me which were to haunt me the rest of my life; ideas and visions of paintings that were far beyond my ability or knowledge to carry out and still are, after fifty years, an unfulfilled dream. These ideas began to emerge in such paintings as the 1943 Coming of Spring....
Charles Burchfield, from Fifty Years as a Painter, 1965, from the exhibition catalog which accompanied the exhibition Charles Burchfield: His Golden Year, University of Arizona, 1965