"To start with, the job of the sculptor is to produce as well as he can the image ordered. He takes stone and he takes the idea presented to him, and he takes such tools as he has. In his imagination he sees the idea, as it were, petrified, and as in human affairs the thing being ordered generally involves some representation of human beings, he imagines human beings as made of stone." Eric Gill, 1935 http://patrickhumphreys.tumblr.com/post/50559529310/eric-gill-madonna-and-child-unfinished-1910