A musical thought is one spoken by a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of the thing; detected the inmost mystery of it, namely the melody that lies hidden in it; the inward harmony of coherence which is its soul, whereby it exists, and has a right to be, here in this world.
—Thomas Carlyle, “The Hero as Poet”
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Michelangelo always tried to conceive the figure as lying hidden in the block of marble on which he was working. The task he set himself as a sculptor was merely to remove the stone which covered them.
—E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, 1950
—E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, 1950
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