A review by westford14
How to be Both by Ali Smith

4.0

But art and love are a matter of mouths open in cinnabar, of blackness and redness turned to velvet by assiduous grinding, of understanding the colours that benefit from being rubbed softly one into the other : the least that the practice will make you is skillful : beyond which there's originality itself, which is what practice is really about in the ned and already I had a name for originality, undeniable, and to this name I had a responsibility far beyond that of answering of the needs of any friend.