Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7404

Form and Colour

In order to get a significance through a picture there must be a definite form – form and colour are the essentials of painting and neither by itself is enough. Here [in a painting sent to Sri Aurobindo] there is colour but no form – or only a shapeless shape – as if you were trying to get rid of form and paint only forces or indefinite suggestions. But that is contrary to an art which depends on colour, line and design.