Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), March, 1922-28; watercolor, 29 1/4 x 42 inches; Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of John L. Sexton
To be a strong courageous healthy spirit— delighting in the natural world, seeing it with the innocence of a child to whom each commonplace stone, blade of grass & sapling is a miracle. That is the secret of eternal youth, the secret that Beethoven had. Happy is the man who can go out into the fields & woods and hills, a free innocent being, unburdened by the world’s smartness & sophistication, its smug acceptance of fleshly indulgences, to whom life & nature are eternal mysteries.
Charles E. Burchfield, between May 20-27, 1923