The expectation is that the head will have a body. That is the thought anyway. Even so no matter how hard "he" thinks about it, "she" the lady half in this rock will never have a body. Thought won't do it. It takes thought and action.
Even so perhaps thoughts really are things since "if the rock was completed it would become what was first thought.
I think?
When you wonder what "body" will emerge from the cube of rock to complete the head already on top it is an example of a point in time when only a thought exists. The thoughts can take form by being revealed as some sculptors claim the do to the rock. On the other hand is the world working from the outside in or the inside out. Did the form of the body to yet be revealed find it’s way into the stone with thought then to find it way back. Guess it did. Guess the lucky one is the one whose thoughts were revealed?
Sow a thought, reap an act;
Sow and act, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
Thoughts are things
I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They're endowed with bodies and breath and wing;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought
Thought is another name for fate;
Chose, then, thy destiny and wait.
Sow a thought, reap an act;
Sow and act, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
Thoughts are things
I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They're endowed with bodies and breath and wing;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought
Thought is another name for fate;
Chose, then, thy destiny and wait.
For love brings love and hate brings hate.
4 comments:
Maybe some sculptors, like people, work from the bottom up. It would explain a lot. The head could have been last, empty or forgotten.?
Hmm.... a rather weird post. Don't publish if too obscure. :/
Maybe some sculptors, like people, work from the bottom up. It would explain a lot. The head could have been last, empty or forgotten.?
Hmm.... a rather weird post. Don't publish if too obscure. :/
I had a comment on the statue with the head and the block that "may be not yet completed"?.
It seems to me that Rodin did finish this statue. He had others that left similiar questions. A half a face one comes to mind.
I think he was making a point about the process of creating a statue. The point being that this head on the large mass of stone just lets the viewer see the body they imagine under the head in the stone. Or they wish they could.
Thoughts of the body might be a good name for this statue.
Those are my thoughts that is.
Nice statues - You have a very nice blog also.
Thanks for your kind comment on mine...
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