"At a more formal level, she was convinced that ‘the beautiful Maurya sculpture presupposes continuity in the artistic…"

"Indian Art demands of the artist the power of communion with the soul of things, the sense of spiritual taking preced…"

"I have, however, mentioned [in The Foundations of Indian Culture] that Islamic culture contributed the Indo-Saracenic…"

"We shall never be able to do justice to Indian art, for ignorance and fanaticism have destroyed its greatest achievem…"

"We may guess at the lost grandeur of north Indian architecture by the powerful edifices that still survive in the sou…"

"Before Indian art, as before every phase of Indian civilization, we stand in humble wonder at its age and its continu…"

"From that time to this, through the vicissitudes of five thousand years, India has been creating its peculiar type of…"

"In India the artist had not yet been separated from the artisan, making art artificial and work a drudgery; as in our…"

"It is clear, from the drawings, in red pigment, of animals and a rhinoceros hunt in the prehistoric caves of Singanpu…"

"And it is precisely the totality of these devices of Harappan art that gives it an intangible yet unmistakable air of…"