Recent Quotes by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

Mans activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is the Hero).