Paulo Coelho 孩堤時，喜歡走到鄰近鑄鐵坊看鐵匠打鐵。有天鐵匠問他，是否覺得他只是重複地做同樣的事。他答是。而鐵匠講了一番讓他至今仍未忘卻的說話。
"Well, you're wrong. Each time I bring the hammer down, the intensity of the blow is different; sometimes it's harder, sometimes it's softer. But I learned that only after I'd been repeating the same gesture for many years, until the moment came when I didn't have to think --- I simply let my hand guide my work. "
我想說，引領鐵匠的，不是他的手，而是他的靈魂。他領悟到的，正讓他成為了藝術家。
