Kasun Anthony

“The contentment of innumerable people can be destroyed in a generation by the withering touch of our civilisation; the local market is flooded by a production in quantity with which the responsible maker of art cannot complete; the vocational structure of society, with all its guild organisation and standards of workmanship, is undermined; the artist is robbed of his art and forced to find himself a "job"; until finally the ancient society is industrialised and reduced to the level of such societies as ours in which business takes precedence of life. Can one wonder that Western nations are feared and hated by other people, not alone for obvious political or economic reasons, but even more profoundly and instinctively for spiritual reasons?”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art - Why Exhibit Works of Art?

“In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art - Why Exhibit Works of Art?

“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 K. Coomaraswamy