Fairfield Porter Professions : Painter Born : June 10, 1907 Died : September 18, 1975 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by 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 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 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 failing trying order 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. Fairfield Porter drawing order art The right use of color can make any composition work. Fairfield Porter composition color use Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
