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If we look at the parpens piled up on the building site or at the block of bronze, nothing about them manifests that they are suited to being a house or a statue. ... Aristotle speaks of the materials considered as such in terms of "the buildable" , coining an adjective whose suffix expresses capacity . This capacity, as we have seen, cannot be grasped after the manner of that with which perception provides us ; it requires a gaze capable of probing more deeply, of proceeding from the real to the possible—as when Michelangelo "sees" a David in the formless block abandoned by other sculptors. (en) |
