Fairfield Porter quotes
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“The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.”
-- Fairfield PorterSource : Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter (2001). “Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels”
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“Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.”
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“The right use of color can make any composition work.”
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“There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.”
-- Fairfield PorterSource : Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes (1979). “Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975”, Taplinger Publishing Company
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“Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.”
-- Fairfield PorterSource : Fairfield Porter, Ted Leigh, Justin Spring (2005). “Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I was never one to paint space, I paint air.”
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“If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.”
-- Fairfield Porter
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“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”
Source : Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)
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“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press
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“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”
Source : James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
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“Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.”
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