Page 12 - Sri Aurobindo on Indian Art - A Photo-exhibit by Madhu Jagdhish
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... everything in the figure, every opportunity
it gives, the face, the hands, the posture of the
limbs, the poise and turn of the body, every
accessory, has to be made instinct with the
inner meaning, help it to emerge, carry out the
rhythm of the total suggestion, and on the
other hand everything is suppressed which
would defeat this end, especially all that would
mean an insistence on the merely vital or
physical, outward or obvious suggestions of
the human figure.