Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Poetry and Art
SABCL - Volume 27
Part 3. Literature, Art, Beauty and Yoga
Section 2. On the Visual Arts
Painting in the Ashram
A General Remark
What you write about
the expression of beauty through painting and the limitations of the work as yet
done here, is quite accurate. The painters here have capacity and disposition,
but as yet the work done ranks more as studies and sketches, some well done,
some less well, than as great or finished art. What they need is not to be
easily satisfied because they have put their ideas or imaginations in colour or
because they have done some good work, but always to see what has not been yet
achieved and train vision and execution-power till they have reached a truly
high power of themselves.
10 January 1936