“So I set about copying the way things looked, trying to get the concept of reality down. Franz Kline once told about a class he had. A lady said to him, ‘I don’t know what to do with this painting.’ He said, ‘Well, where you see green put down green, where you see blue put down blue.’ And that is true. And it’s very hard to do. He hasn’t really explained anything, or he’s explained everything. One or the other. Nothing or everything.” Fairfield Porter, Artists In Their Own Words, p 134
[at the top: Fairfield Porter, Still life with Casserole, 1955, American Museum of Art Smithsonian]
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