Fairfield Porter Quotes:
Ocupation: Painter
Life: June 10, 1907 - September 18, 1975
Birthday: June 10
Death: September 18
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.
source: Fairfield Porter, Ted Leigh, Justin Spring (2005). “Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter”, Univ of Michigan Pr
topic: Order, Trying, Failing, Awkwardness
