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).
Industry without art is brutality. - Ananda Coomaraswamy
Industry without art is brutality.
- 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 for this… - 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 for this…
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession. - Ananda Coomaraswamy
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. - Ananda Coomaraswamy
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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,… - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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,…
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. - Ananda Coomaraswamy
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
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 t… - 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 price of things is approximate to t…
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 t… - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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 t…
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 … - Ananda Coomaraswamy
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 …
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