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@artistklee Image from frontspiece of Ajit Mookerjee's Tantra Art: Its Philosophy & Physics. Basel, 1971: "As the author of the Chieh Tzu Yuan expresses it, "When painting has reached divinity (shen), there is an end of the matter." (Coomaraswarmy, Transformation of Nature in Art, p.22.)"

Image from frontspiece of Ajit Mookerjee's Tantra Art: Its Philosophy & Physics
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Jul 2022

@sssfCommunity 4/ Ananda Coomaraswamy defined such unceasing recognition of transcendent reality and empirical reality, matter and spirit, and subject and object, experienced as a simultaneous, single state, as, "The last achievement of all thought. Then there is no sacred or profane.”

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @artistklee "Horses and elephants pull at the word of command. But the wise man understands even what is unsaid; the enlightened, the full content of what has been communicated only by a hint. There are meanings immanent and causative in verbal and visual symbols." - A.K. CoomaraswamyQuoted by@artistklee "Horses and elephants pull at the word of command. But the wise man understands even what is unsaid; the enlightened, the full content of what has been communicated only by a hint. There are meanings immanent and causative in verbal and visual symbols." - A.K. CoomaraswamyQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @y_marriex @yakabikaj "Horses and elephants pull at the word of command. But the wise man understands even what is unsaid; the enlightened, the full content of what has been communicated only by a hint. There are meanings immanent and causative in verbal and visual symbols." - A.K. CoomaraswamyQuoted by@y_marriex @yakabikaj "Horses and elephants pull at the word of command. But the wise man understands even what is unsaid; the enlightened, the full content of what has been communicated only by a hint. There are meanings immanent and causative in verbal and visual symbols." - A.K. Coomaraswamy