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Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.

Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.

Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary

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Rosamund Lupton
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Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Rosamund Lupton, based on documented activity in 2010. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5551360 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5551360 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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