from 'The Shape of a Pocket', by John Berger:
'The painter is continually trying to discover, to stumble upon, the place which will contain and surround his present act of painting. Ideally there should be as many places as there are paintings. The trouble is that a painting often fails to become a place. When it fails to become a place, a painting remains a representation or a decoration - a furnishing.'
and, continuing in the same essay, he says:
'Working alone, the painter knows that far from being able to control the painting from the outside, he has to inhabit it and find shelter in it. He works by touch in the dark.
.... How does a painter work in the dark? He has to submit.'
