A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul. . . . . My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.