Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

As I sat in an office on the 5th floor of a building downtown and looked out over the motley collection of buildings and noted the crude manufactory shapes (such as water towers and the like) I thought it is not what a place is that makes for art — it is what the artist feels about them. A seer looking at two rails gleaming the sun may conceive a greater work of art than the imitator who sets down the most picturesque or perfect old world city & building, without feeling —