‘When we’re too young, our judgment isn’t sound, and it’s the same when we’re too old. If we don’t think enough about something – or if we think too much – we’re inflexible and get stuck. If we take a look at our work as soon as we’ve done it, we’re not able to be objective; but if we wait too long, we can’t get into it any more. It’s like looking at pictures from too near or too far away. There is only one place that’s exactly right: the others are either too far, too near, too high or too low. In the art of painting it’s perspective that determines where that point should be. But who’s to
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