A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde
Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad.
Letters to, &c., p. [182], ll. 59-62.
ll. 33-4.
As perchance carvers do not faces make,
But that away, which hid them there, do take.
'To make representations of men, or of other creatures, we finde two wayes; Statuaries have one way, and Painters have another: Statuaries doe it by Substraction; They take away, they pare off some parts of that stone, or that timber, which they work upon, and then that which they leave, becomes like that man, whom they would represent: Painters doe it by Addition; Whereas the cloth or table presented nothing before, they adde colours, and lights, and shadowes, and so there arises a representation.' Sermons 80. 44. 440.
Norton compares Michelangelo's lines:
Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto
Ch' un marmo solo in se non circonscriva