Page 12 - Sri Aurobindo on Indian Art - A Photo-exhibit by Madhu Jagdhish

... everything in the figure, every opportunity

it gives, the face, the hands, the posture of the

limbs, the poise and turn of the body, every

accessory, has to be made instinct with the

inner meaning, help it to emerge, carry out the

rhythm of the total suggestion, and on the

other hand everything is suppressed which

would defeat this end, especially all that would

mean an insistence on the merely vital or

physical, outward or obvious suggestions of

the human figure.