08/20/1914
graphite pencil on lined paper
5 3/4 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
isolated. I do not mean that men should go off by themselves to think their own thoughts because the next man has a different kind of thought. Let men freely exchange & discuss their thoughts; but let them not bind themselves into organizations with ironclad pledges to think the same thoughts. An organization is death original thought. Originally no two persons are alike, either inwardly or outwardly. People may by long usage & continual squelching of the inner man and conforming to accepted thought lose their personality Why must this be? Why should