পাতা:সৌন্দর্য্য তত্ত্ব - অভয় কুমার গুহ.pdf/২৭৮

ès সৌন্দৰ্য্য-ভণ্ড । ” r*All air constantly spires towards the contition of Music.” Pater. T transmit the feeling, one has experienced to others, by means of movements, lines, colours, sounds or forms expressed in words, is the activity of Art.” holstoy. “If Att was an exact representation of Natüre, it could be practised with absolute certainty and assurance of 'success; but the duty of Art is of a higher kind...... Art is only Art when it adds mind to form.” David Wilkie, “The whole of modern European academic art-teaching has been based upon the unphilosophic theory that beauty is a quality which is inherent in certain aspects of matter or form--a quality first fully apprehended by the Greeks and afterwards rediscovered by the artists of the Italian Renaissance...... Indian thought takes a much wider, a more profound and comprehensive view of Indian art...... Beauty, says the Indian artist, is subjective, not objective. It is not inherent in form or matter ; it belongs to spirit, and can only be apprehended by spiritual vision...... The true aim of the artist is not to extract beauty from nature but to reveal the life within life, the noumenon within the phenomenon the reality within the unreality, and the soul within matter-when that is revealed, beauty reveals itself. So all Nature is beautiful for us, if only we can realise the Divine Idea within it......... To cultivate this faculty of spiritual vision, the powers of intuitive perception which, until recently, has been regarded in the West as beyond the scope of educational methods, was therefore the main endeavour of the Indian artist in the golden age of Ihdian art and literature." Aavell's Ideals of Indian Art.