Charles 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 for me. Altho this is a vast industrial region, and all the roads are infested with thousands of automobiles, trucks and what not, nevertheless my outlet 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 Burchfield, August 24, 1961