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The modern Western art movements such as cubism and non-objective painting have used geometrical forms in an ugly way. If anything attractive has ever appeared in their pictures, it has come through the colours used. The Oriental Muhammedan artists and architects have likewise used geometrical forms, because this was the restriction laid upon them by the prophet Muhammed; but they have used them in a beautiful way. A mosque is a thing which is a joy to see whatever one's religion may be. What further comment need be made?

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 198