Best 6 quotes of Fairfield Porter on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

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.

The right use of color can make any composition work.