[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c12.172 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.172 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.172 - **Language:** English ### [c12.172](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.172) We should not, then, introduce into Indian civic life a standard of art immeasurably inferior to its own—the contractor's art and the jerry-builder are our only æsthetic importations; we should not affect to consider art as a proper moral influence for Indian jails and reformatories and deny it to university students; and, if we argue that the indifference to Indian art of the India we have educated is a proof that it does not really interpret the Indian mind, we should at least be sure that we are better able to interpret it ourselves. You cannot know a people's mind if you do not understand their art. - [Previous: c12.171](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.171) - [Next: c12.173](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.173) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.172](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.172) · Pramāṇa