Quotes from Stephanie Cowell

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. —CAMILLE PISSARRO

Dull late-afternoon light glittered on the hanging copper pots in the kitchen where the old painter sat with his wine, smoking cigarette, a letter angrily crumpled on the table in front of him.

The problem with having loved, however briefly, he thought reflectively, is that you can't ever get back to yourself just as you were before. It changes you.