Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.132

c12.132

It is chiefly because the modern European usually refuses to recognise anything which is not evident to his five known senses that he finds the difference so irreconcileable and the gulf so impassable. The Indian artist lives in a world of his own imagination, where the stolid Anglo-Saxon is unable to follow him; but, until the Western pedagogue brought Indian culture into contempt and stifled the inherited artistic instincts of Indian youth with his own pedantic formularies, the Indian artist found his traditional methods were perfectly adequate for obtaining that response from his public which every artist needs.