Fairfield Porter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?
Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
I don't really know how to do casual clothes

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