The body is the substance of the stone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.