“I’ve been thinking about what you said about seeing and not seeing. I had a painting teacher once tell me that the difference between a good painting and a great painting is typically five strokes. And they’re usually the five boldest strokes in the painting. The question, of course, is which five strokes?”
“I get it. After one’s slaved away at making a pretty good painting, the last thing you’d want to do is make a bold stroke and potentially—”
“—ruin everything.”
“Everything beautiful is ruined eventually. Maybe that’s the thing. If you do ruin your painting, you got to know you have everything in you to get to that pretty good painting again.”
“But if you never do the bold stroke…”
“You’ll never know if you could’ve had a great painting.”
a face in the crowd 