Visitors at the College of Arts and Crafts exhibition in Patna on Tuesday. Pictures by Ashok Sinha

Patna, Jan. 25: Students showcased their enormous potential through new emerging styles and creativity at the 72nd anniversary celebrations of College of Arts and Crafts here today.

Toiling hard for months together, the students came out with breathtaking paintings, sculptures, jewellery and put up an hour-long play.

Inaugurating the ceremony, noted painter and former principal of College of Arts and Crafts Shyam Sharma said: “Commissioning an art college in Bihar has definitely changed the basic perception of taking art as a career. Since the college came up, it has produced many gems, who have won acclaim across the world.”

“Science is incomplete without art. Whatever doctors and engineers do, there is an art lurking inside them. The way a doctor holds his instrument or an engineer designs a model, they are not supposed to commit a single mistake while working on their job. So that is another facet of art. The students should not be overburdened with studies, rather should frame themselves in other activities like taking part in sports, NSS, NCC,” said Kashinath Singh, the principal of Science College.

Milan Das, a renowned painter, said: “It is but devotion which can make you find new directions in art. Thus, students in their five year learning period should not let their eyes divert from the lessons of their mentors. They should make the best use of it so as to imbibe the vision of their mentors who think a bit different from that of the world. Teachers also want to do their jobs sincerely on the other hand.”

“Art never dies, it expands itself day by day,” said the vice-chancellor of Aryabhatt University, S.N. Guha

“An artist has a free hand to do anything with his creation, the most aspiring side of an artist is that he can show the world whatever he thinks. There is certainly no inhibition in him for that,” he added.