Sculpting Time

Here's an excerpt from a book I'm reading called "Free Play" by Stephen Nachmanovitch:

"Let's return to Michelangelo's idea of removing apparent surfaces to reveal or liberate the statue that had been buried in the stone since the beginning of time. Michelangelo claimed that he was guided by a faculty he called intelleto. Intelleto is intelligence, not of the merely rational kind, but visionary intelligence, a deep seeing of underlying pattern beneath appearances... As the stone is to a sculptor, so time is to a musician. Whenever he gets up to play, the musician stands there facing his own unsculpted block of time. Over this seemingly featureless void he draws, perhaps, a violin bow, which is a device for carving or shaping time--or let us say for discovering or releasing the shapes that are latent in that unique moment of time."