Industry without art is brutality.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

- 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…

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

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 …

- 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 …

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

- 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,…

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

- Ananda Coomaraswamy