"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."

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Source : Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes (1979). “Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975”, Taplinger Publishing Company

Fairfield Porter

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“True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.”
“If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.346, St. Martin's Press
“Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.”
“What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.”
“It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.”
“Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.”
“The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.”

Source : "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".
“Food is not simply nutritional cocaine that I'm injecting in my body. It is about a relationship I have with myself, how I see myself, what I want from myself.”

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