Charles Burchfield Quotes

#1. Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

Paul Smith

#2. In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

Hope Solo

#3. The big thing that makes Dostoevsky invaluable for American readers and writers is that he appears to possess degrees of passion, conviction, and engagement with deep moral issues that we-here, today-cannot or do not permit ourselves.

David Foster Wallace

#4. The worst part of Christmas is that it ends. That practically the day after, everyone carries on as if nothing else ever happens. You're expected to go back to your normal life, eat normal food, not receive presents or celebrate or be jolly and wear stupid clothing, just because the moment's passed.

Matthew Crow

#5. Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

Michio Kaku

#6. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield

#7. I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Nile Rodgers

#8. Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Charles E. Burchfield

#9. I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

John Oates

#10. Education beats at the heart of sustainability.

Andrea Illy

#11. Harry resumed the patting of his elbow, saying as he did so (for the potion seemed to indicate that it was the right thing to do),

J.K. Rowling

#12. I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!

Tommy McDonald

#13. I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

A. Scott Berg

#14. As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Charles E. Burchfield

#15. When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

#16. You made a mistake. One fucking enormous, stupid mistake. That's all. Now get over it. Buck up and fix it, and if you can't fix it, keep going anyway. It's the only way to live.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#17. Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#18. Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

Charles E. Burchfield

#19. ...he had impressed her as a man delightfully open to suggestion, with an imagination large enough to find time, even in the depths of despair, for the important things in life, those accidents without which our existence was little more than a schedule of dry routines.

Matthew Thomas

#20. Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

Charles E. Burchfield

#21. It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Charles E. Burchfield

#22. I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

Jessica Lange