Tessa Rose’s Reviews > The Problem of Pain > Status Update

“But over the great picture of his life—the work which he loves…—he will take endless trouble—and would…give endless trouble to the picture if it were sentient. One can imagine a sentient picture, after being rubbed and scraped and re-commenced for the tenth time, wishing that it were only a thumbnail sketch whose making was over in a minute. …but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.”