"...Sometimes, when our Prebendary was tired of painting, he would ask the student
who assisted him for the chisels, the mallet, and other tools to work on some sculpture,
saying that he wanted to rest a while. The youth would laugh at this
and tell him, "that's a fine way to rest, master, putting down a little brush
and picking up a mallet!" To which the Prebendary would respond,
"You are a big fool! Don't you know that it is more work to give form and
volume to that which has neither that to give form
to that which has volume?"..."
FROM PALOMINO'S
LIFE OF ALFONSO CANO
who assisted him for the chisels, the mallet, and other tools to work on some sculpture,
saying that he wanted to rest a while. The youth would laugh at this
and tell him, "that's a fine way to rest, master, putting down a little brush
and picking up a mallet!" To which the Prebendary would respond,
"You are a big fool! Don't you know that it is more work to give form and
volume to that which has neither that to give form
to that which has volume?"..."
FROM PALOMINO'S
LIFE OF ALFONSO CANO
