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

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

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

- 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

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

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

- 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