"The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual."

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Source : Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter (2001). “Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels”

Fairfield Porter

#Order Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Casual Quotes

“Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.”
“I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.”
“It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.”

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“The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”
“Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.”
“Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are”
“In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
“It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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