Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.