On Michelangelo's David

"During the tour I became separated from the group, and, searching blindly through the corridors of the Galleria dell'Accademia, I came upon the statue from the wrong direction. Suddenly there it was. My first glimpse of it was from the reverse. It is normally viewed from the front, and from that direction one sees a powerful body firmly planted on the earth, poised, balanced, muscular, set in its essential form, like the triumph of the will.

"But I saw it first from an entirely different...