The problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.


Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (ed. Wordsworth Editions, 2007) - ISBN: 9781840225587

Virginia Woolf Quotes

The problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight....

The problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight....

The problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight....

The problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight....