Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, September 3, 1942

It is my habit to fear the making of an acquaintance with new people, and probably if no one else ever made first overtures I would never meet anyone. So it was with the visit of the Soyer's - but I need have had no apprehension. I liked them both - Soyer was all artist, and interested so completely in picture. He said his visit here was the happiest day of his stay in Buffalo, which I can well understand, for there is not an artist in Buffalo who is completely an artist - The most are dilettantic, - more interested in social life, or the politics of "art circles".