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  • Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.

    - Dame Barbara Hepworth
      Unit One.

  • A word is the carving and colouring of a thought, and gives it permanence.

    - Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
      Laughter in the Next Room, ch.7.

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