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 Porter

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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

vanity vain ifs

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 Porter

organization order art

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

Fairfield Porter

normal matter doe

I was never one to paint space, I paint air. by Fairfield Porter

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

Fairfield Porter

paint space air

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual. by Fairfield Porter

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Fairfield Porter

drawing order art

The right use of color can make any composition work. by Fairfield Porter

The right use of color can make any composition work.

Fairfield Porter

composition color use