The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russel

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Insight of the Day

You begin with the possibilities of the material. - Robert Rauschenberg


or how Twain puts it:
"Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
Mark Twain

If things break, get dented, can't keep pace or the form starts following another “function” -
They weren't made to.
Though Michelangelo could find “in every block of stone” a statue, sculpturing it till "the skin showed", he couldn't make it breathe or its heart beat.