There are things that other people do not see: unknown depths, the wellsprings of life... There is grace in elegance; above grace, there is modelling; everything is exaggerated; we call it soft but it is most powerfully soft! Words fail me then.

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About the Chola sculptures, in 1913. quoted in Sunderland, Rev. Jabez T.India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom Lewis Copeland Company New York 1929p. 350. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture

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