Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7399

Art and Nature [2]

A painter can certainly bring home the aspects of the sea and the beauty of Nature, but he does it as an artist, in the way of Art. He does it by representation and suggestion, not by mere reproduction of the object. The question of Art or Nature being more beautiful therefore does not arise.

16 March 1936