[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c7.16 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.16 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.16 - **Language:** English ### [c7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7.16) ‘New worlds of art,’ Mr. Fry writes, have been revealed, and ‘a vast mass of new aesthetic experience lies open’.² ‘It used to happen,’ said Goethe, ‘and still happens to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries—to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.’³ - [Previous: c7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7.15) - [Next: c7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7.17) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c7.16) · Pramāṇa