Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " not as clothes for our morals & “soul sensations” which may be the degeneracy of the age. Viewing nature absolutely, we can never hamper our art with ludicrous moral or philosophical whims, at which a later saner age must laugh. I come to Nature not to create a fantastic expression of my own soul, but to faithfully portray the soul of nature. My soul is the means, not the end. / January 4, 1915 / The beauty of the day sets the mind into chaos. Full of a million sen- "