Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
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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…
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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