Ananda Coomaraswamy quotes
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“The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) ch. 2
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“Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.273, World Wisdom, Inc
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“We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.61, Courier Corporation
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“From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.”
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“Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.”
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“Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.”
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“It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.”
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“All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation
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“Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).”
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“It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.105, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc
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“No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1988). “Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“What I have sought is to understand what has been said.”
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2011). “The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy: Reflections on Indian Art, Life, and Religion”, p.18, World Wisdom, Inc
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