Sunday, April 6, 2008

Aurobindo on Art

"If Art's device is but to imitate Nature, then burn all the picture galleries and let us have instead photographic studios. It is because Art reveals what nature hides that a small picture is worth more than all the jewels of the millionaires and the treasures of the princes.

If you only imitate the visible Nature, you will perpetuate either a corpse, a dead sketch or a monstrosity; Truth lives in that which goes behind and beyond the visible and sensible."


- Aurobindo

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