The Shape of a Pocket

I won't play piano like Thelonious Monk, and I'm not going to paint like John Berger or any other painter. And so, as I read a book like The Shape of a Pocket, I'm on the outside looking in. The book helps me see and help me appreciate it, gives me things to think about. But I'll give you an example when he says, for example, quote, when a painting is lifeless, it is the result of the painter not having the nerve to get close enough for a collaboration to start. He stays at a copying distance. To go in close means forgetting convention, reputation, reasoning, hierarchies, and self. It also means risking