Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 3. Literature, Art, Beauty and Yoga
Section 3. Beauty and Its Appreciation
General Remarks on Beauty

Art, Beauty and Ananda [1]

Art is a thing of beauty and beauty and Ananda are closely connected — they go together. If the Ananda is there, then the beauty comes out more easily — if not, it has to struggle out painfully and slowly. That is quite natural.

14 December 1936