Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.71
Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.71
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c5.s3.t1.71
Integrally part of nature, and on the way of becoming artistic form, it has to halt before its ultimate goal, which is formless and limitless. There all the means of expression are insufficient, words as well as form. But in order to show that the direction towards the ultimate goal lies within the living body, the craftsman transubstantiates it in art, so that it becomes the visible vāhana, the unmistakable conveyance, towards, and it also may be said as well as of, the form—and limitless.