Studies in Indian Art c7.s3.7
Studies in Indian Art c7.s3.7
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c7.s3.7
The operation of the mind brings into being all the various kinds of human art. The deva-śilpa is the work of the Creator's mind, the mānusha-śilpa that of the human mind. The mind is the storehouse of all the various pictorial forms form the beginning to the end. Indeed it has been said that the mind (chitta) is even more various-and-pictorial (chittatara) than painting (chitta in Pāli), because in the latter the conception is not perfectly realised while the pictures made by the mind are faultless. (Coomaraswamy, "An Early Passage on Indian Painting"; Atthasālini, PTS ed. pp. 64).