It is for that reason that these figures became objects. I think you have to create a thing that functions within very free, imaginative and innovative parameters. You do not create beauty from classical canons. The problem consists of surprising and being surprised. You have to find something that yields peace and balance, despite the overwhelming and the disproportionate.
All rules work because they are the result of centuries of experimentation.
The thing is that, in the end, you have to break the rules. You start with them, but at some time or another, you do the opposite. You cannot do the opposite from the beginning. It is necessary to begin with knowledge and the experience of others. After that comes freedom.