"How does a painter work in the dark? He has to submit. Often he had to turn around in circles instead of advancing. He prays for collaboration from somewhere else...He builds a shelter from which to make forays so as to discover the lie of the land. And all this he does with pigment, brush strokes, rags, a knife, his fingers. The process is highly tactile. Yet what he is hoping to touch is not normally tangible. This is the only real mystery. This is why some-like you-become painters."
John Berger. The Shape of a pocket. 2001
