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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. to paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. it might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.
-Nicole Krauss
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Sometimes Just To Paint A Head You

Nicole Krauss
Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. to paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. it might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.
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