Just as it is essential for a statue to be made by human hands, so is the actor essential to his mask-not as an external condition, from which, artistically considered, we have to abstract; or so far as abstraction must certainly be made, we thereby state just that art does not yet contain in it the true and proper self.
Estatuari zerizanezkoa zaion bezala gizakien eskuek egindakoa izatea, zerizanezkoa zaio antzezleari bere mozorroa, ez kanpoko baldintza bezala, ikuspegi artistikoak baztertu behar duena; edo ikuspegi horretan, dena den, hori baztertu behar bada, horren bidez esan nahi da antzeak oraindik ez duela bere barnean barnebiltzen egiazko norbera benetakoa.