December 8, 1914
graphite on lined paper
5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
[inscription reads] less serious discussion of Christianity. When I declared against anyone having convictions, Duke insisted we must have something to cling too (sic). I have been thinking of that now and it seems that such must be the case - as we start out we should have some truth as a foundation perhaps. The only conviction I know of that we may be pardoned for having is that truth is truth, beauty is beauty, good is good, etc. always unchangeable, but our concep¬tion of these must inevitably be always chang -