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

The Need of Artistic Training [4]

If you work hard and patiently you can surely learn [painting] — but you must realise that you are very young and it takes years before an artist can learn to produce something really perfect.