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ভারতীয় প্রাচীন চিত্রকলা
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“These members are to be suited to the body in graceful motions expressive of the meaning which the figure is intended to convey. If it had to give the idea of genteel and agreeable carriage the members must be slender and well turned but not lean, muscles very slightly marked, indicating in a soft manner such as must necessarily appear; the arms, particularly pliant, and no member in a straight line with any other adjoining member....... In regard to the positions of the head and the arms they are infinite, and for that reason I shall not enter any detailed rules concerning them. Suffice it to say that they are to be easy and free, graceful and varied in their bendings, so that they may not appear stiff-like pieces of wood". (P. 43-44) মনের গতিতে বা মননশক্তির আন্তর উত্তেজনায় যে একটি অদৃশ্য শরীরের গতির সৃষ্টি হয় তাহার বিষয় উল্লেখ করিতে গিয়া বলিতেছেন—“A mere thought or operation of the mind excites only simple and easy motions of the body; not this way, and that way, because its object is in the mind, it does not affect the senses