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Fairfield Porter was an American painter known for his distinctive style and bold use of color. His works are primarily landscapes, showcasing his deep understanding and delicate depiction of natural scenery. Porter's painting skills were exquisite, and his works have won high praise in the art world.

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“The right use of color can make any composition work.”

Use Color Composition

Author:Fairfield Porter

“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.”

Way Art Order Principles Possibility Limits Organization

Book:Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975

Source: Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975

“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.”

Ifs Trying Seems Order Given Failing Harmony Following Disorder Truest Awkwardness

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“I was never one to paint space, I paint air.”

Space Air Paint

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“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.”

Ifs Vanity Vain

Author:Fairfield Porter

“The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.”

Art Order Drawing Casual

Book:Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels

Source: Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels

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

Doe Matter Subjects Normal Happenings Subject Matter

Author:Fairfield Porter

About the Author

Born: June 10, 1907
Died: September 18, 1975
Known for: Painter
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