The work praises the master.
German proverb
Six words, and they quietly refuse the whole apparatus of self-promotion. Not the master praises the work, not the audience praises the master — the work does it, on its own, later, without being asked. It implies something uncomfortable too: if the work isn’t praising you, no amount of describing it will.
The original: Das Werk lobt den Meister. Still stamped inside German toolboxes.
What Weil’s attention produces once it is pointed at a material rather than a person.
Anything you have to explain, you haven’t finished.
What are you describing that you should be building?