Page 34 - Madhu Jagdhish
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For the Indian mind form does not exist except as



          a creation of the spirit and draws all its meaning



          and value from the spirit.




          Every line, arrangement of mass, colour, shape,



          posture, every physical suggestion, however



          many, crowded, opulent they may be, is first and



          last a suggestion, a hint, very often a symbol



          which is in its main function a support for a


          spiritual emotion, idea, image that again goes



          beyond itself to the less definable, but more



          powerfully sensible reality of the spirit which has



          excited these movements in the aesthetic mind


          and passed through them into significant shapes.



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