Page 34 - Sri Aurobindo on Indian Art - A Photo-exhibit by Madhu Jagdhish

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.

(CWSA, 20: 270)