"Make the picture here," he would say, tapping two fingers of his empty hand upon his skull. "Once the picture is firmly marked in your mind, and the details firmly etched in that picture, then, put it, absolutely from your head. Only once you have purged the image from your mind, allowing it to liquefy as steel in the Great Forge beneath the city, will you be ready to begin. Do not think of yourself as the creator. Let the stone bring forth a life that you have not envisioned, and the forgotten image within you will grow and change in harmony with the image that breathes within the stone itself. The result is not quite stone, not quite flesh, but a wondrous creation that reflects the soul of both shaper and subject."
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