On 03/03/2016 09:58 AM, Theogott wrote:
> I know, it will happen when the time comes.
> At the moment i just wonder how you can make such amazing caves.
>
> Sometimes i see an atist making a great looking statue out of stone.
> But its not that anybody having a hammer and a stone can do it.
>
> The stone is the same, the Hammer is the same.
> Just the result differs.
>
> How many are there who are really talented?
>

I think it was Michelangelo who said (paraphrased):

The image is already in the stone.  I just carve away what it doesn't look like.

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Oops, no, that's not quite right.  I just did a web search and found this site of
Michelangelo 
quotes:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michelangelo.html

There are several quotes on that page with the same general meaning that I had in
mind...

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to
discover it."
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
"The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell;
The 
sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

-- 
      -=- Larry -=-

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