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“Gambling,” says Painter Graham Sutherland, “is awfully like painting. However much you know about painting there’s always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to.”
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Sutherland compares painting with gambling because both involve uncertainty at the decisive moment. A painter may understand the craft and still not know whether a particular physical touch—a mark, stroke, or application of paint—will create the intended result. Skill guides the action, but it cannot guarantee exactly what the finished image will become.
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