 There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to...  The Indian Craftsman - Page 24by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1909 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1873 - 784 pages
...of friends, His Majesty, who had conferred on several the pleasure of drawing near him, remarked : " There are many that hate painting ; but such men I...had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must... | |
 | Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1873 - 788 pages
...of friends, His Majesty, who had conferred on several the pleasure of drawing near him, remarked : " There are many that hate painting ; but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a paiiiter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has... | |
 | Henry Hardy Cole, William Tayler, South Kensington Museum - Art - 1874 - 412 pages
...friends the emperor, who had conferred on several the pleasure of drawing near to him, remarked, " There are many that hate painting, but " such men...to me as if a painter had " quite peculiar means of recognising God, for in sketching " anything that has life, and in devising its limbs one after " the... | |
 | François Bernier - India - 1891 - 572 pages
...Majesty [the Emperor Akbar], who had conferred on several the pleasure of drawing near him, remarked, "There are many that hate painting ; but such men...to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognising God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1893 - 248 pages
...overruled by Akbar, who is recorded to have expressed his views on painting in these words : — ' There are many that hate painting ; but such men I...painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God. For a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs one after the other, must... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - India - 1895 - 408 pages
...contained mural paintings of his battles in Hindustan. " There are many that hate painting," says Akbar, " but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God. For a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1903 - 480 pages
...aesthetic genius.1 Akbar's views on art were characteristic. One day he remarked to some friends : ' There are many that hate painting, but such men I...had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter, in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs one after the other, must... | |
 | Ernest Binfield Havell - Travel - 1904 - 250 pages
...Bigoted followers of the law are hostile to the art of painting, but their eyes now see the truth. There are many that hate painting, but such men I dislike. It appears to me as if a painter had a peculiar means of recognizing God; for a painter, in sketching anything that has life and in drawing... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 690 pages
...aesthetic genius. Akbar's views on art were characteristic. One day he remarked to some friends: " There are many that hate painting, but such men I...painter had quite peculiar means of recognizing God; for a painter, in sketching 38 anything that has life, and in devising its limbs one after the other, must... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1919 - 562 pages
...theological justification for his personal taste, remarking to friends assembled at a private party : ' There are many that hate painting ; but such men I...had quite peculiar means of recognizing God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must... | |
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