Fairfield Porter Quotes

#1. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.

Terry Teachout

#2. The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Fairfield Porter

#3. 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

#4. Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

Hasnat Khan

#5. The right use of color can make any composition work.

Fairfield Porter

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

Fairfield Porter

#7. God's righteousness,

Anonymous

#8. 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

#9. I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

George Lucas

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

Fairfield Porter

#11. Reading gives us a place to go when we have no where to go

Mason Cooley

#12. 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

#13. For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.

Philippe Petit