[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) › c12.181 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.181 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.181 - **Language:** English ### [c12.181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.181) The strength of a living art is shown in its power of assimilating foreign influences; but when it is weak such influences kill it. No great living art can or will surround itself with a ring-fence of exclusiveness, and Indian art has never done so at any period of its history. But it is cruel to bind it hand and foot, to give free ingress to all the evil influences of modernism, and to do nothing whatever to bring in the good ones. This has been the effect upon Indian art of our present educational system, and of our whole artistic policy in India. - [Previous: c12.180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.180) - [Next: c12.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.182) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.181) · Pramāṇa