So aesthetics is what connects one to matters of fact. It is anti-ideal, it is materialistic. It implies no approval, but respect for things as they are. America inch by inch. This has nothing to do with evaluation or usefulness.
—Fairfield Porter, “Letters to Claire and Robert White.” Parenthèse, No. 4, 212.
[Quoted in Douglas Crase's AMERIFIL.TXT (U. of Michigan, 1996)]
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