#benjaminbridges

"When you make a painting you start with nothing and sometimes the underpainting is really beautiful and then it goes up and down in waves. You try to leave the painting at that point where it hits the crest of the wave before it drops and you have to make it into something else. It goes from a fresh painting into something labored, but more beautiful. You have to go through that process. If you can get it within 20 percent of the top you just stop because you know you can get closer but you let the work go" 

Said by the painter Benjamin Bridges