I had to put aside like a curtain the pallor of the marble to go back, in so far as possible, from those motionless contours to the living form, from the hard texture of Paros or Pentelikon to the flesh itself.
uxatu beharra izaten nuen, gortina bat bailitzan, Paros edo Pentelikoko marmolaren zuritasun hura; eta harrizko bornu geldo haietatik gora joaten saiatzen nintzen, ahal nuen bezala, forma biziduna ber-hatzeman nahirik, marmol gogorretik haragi gurira, alegia.