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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-most-awkward-means-are-adequate-to-the-communication-of-authentic/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

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## More by Ananda Coomaraswamy

> [No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/no-creature-can-attain-a-higher-grade-of-nature-without-ceasing-to/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/all-that-is-best-for-us-comes-of-itself-into-our-hands-but-if-we/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/becoming-is-not-a-contradiction-of-being-but-the-epiphany-of-being/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Industry without art is brutality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/industry-without-art-is-brutality/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/it-is-only-when-the-maker-of-things-is-a-maker-of-things-by-vocation/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [“There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/there-is-then-no-sacred-or-profane-spiritual-or-sensual-but/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/beauty-is-the-attractive-power-of-perfection/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/those-who-think-of-their-house-as-only-a-machine-to-live-in-should/)

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> [Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/myth-embodies-the-nearest-approach-to-absolute-truth-that-can-be/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/from-one-point-of-view-becoming-is-a-humiliation-and-from-another-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/man-s-activity-consists-in-either-a-making-or-doing-both-of-these/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-vocation-whether-it-be-that-of-the-farmer-or-the-architect-is-a/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-artist-is-not-a-special-kind-of-man-but-every-man-is-a-special/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-most-awkward-means-are-adequate-to-the-communication-of-authentic/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-man-incapable-of-contemplation-cannot-be-an-artist-but-only-a/)

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