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(Quotations)

Reading Christmas Humphreys' 'Buddhism. Quotes Dr. Suzuki -

Great Art of China, essentially Buddhist Art. New Quality of Vision
A universe devoid of tension - not because contrarieties & conflicts have ceased to operate, but because they have somehow become intelligible  In contemplation of tranciency, we receive of measure of eternity. 
- Being one with all: the Zen artist's mind was also one with nature.

"The grandeur, vastness, the inexhaustibility of nature are in man, and the sensitiveness & mystic impenetrability of the soul lies also in the bosom of nature!

(In Zen, a flower is a flower & neither a symbol of eternity nor a botanical specimen.)

The use of Space in Chinese art is also derived from Zen.

To the Chinese mind space is



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a living reality, & a picture should never be bound by its' frame.

Of the formal elements of design, this gift of Spacing is China's greatest contribution to the world's art. For art is concerned with relatives rather than with things, & the Zen sense of the unity of all things made it possible to translate this awareness with art.

Buddhist sculpture at its best is linear, flowing & free. Essentially rhythmic & plastic it is spontaneous, however elaborate in form, therefore exhilarating. An essential lightness of touch appears in even the noblest works of Chinese Art. The variety is as vast as the technique is various & the visibility of thought, the spiritual drive it might be called, which infuses the