Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
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 … - Fairfield Porter
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 …
- Fairfield Porter
The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual. - Fairfield Porter
The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.
Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest ord… - Fairfield Porter
Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest ord…
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 possibi… - Fairfield Porter
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 possibi…
I was never one to paint space, I paint air. - Fairfield Porter
I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
The right use of color can make any composition work. - Fairfield Porter
The right use of color can make any composition work.
Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one. - Fairfield Porter
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