Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes

#1. I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Tao Lin

#2. 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 without art.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#3. Though my initial intent was to cater to him, he took over our sexual experiences by catering to and spoiling me.

Jessica N. Watkins

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

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#5. 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, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#6. All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#7. I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency. - Nathan

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#8. Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

E. O. Wilson

#9. The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

John C. Maxwell

#10. The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

David

#11. [...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#12. The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment.

Anthony Marais

#13. Industry without art is brutality.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#14. There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#15. 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 their real value ...

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#16. There will always be times we struggle, make bad decisions, even fail. What's important is not that we fail, but that we learn and grow. And that we know that there is alway someone out there who believes in us.

Lisa McMann

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

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#18. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#19. The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve - an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#20. There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

Jamie Oliver

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

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#22. 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).

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#23. 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 reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#24. Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean.

Rumi

#25. No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#26. What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#27. Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#28. 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 indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#29. she's shopping for a sense of control, a distraction from anxiety, and a feeling of mastery and competence.

Kit Yarrow

#30. Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Neal A. Maxwell

#31. Those who think of their house as only a 'machine to live in' should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#32. 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 the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Ananda Coomaraswamy

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

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#34. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can't think for herself

David Henry Hwang

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

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy