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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this standpoint, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis. For like a Yogi an artist goes into deep contemplation to await and receive his inspiration. To </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">create something truly beautiful, he [Yogi] has first to see it within, to realise it as a whole in his inner consciousness;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">only when so found, seen, held within, can he execute it outwardly; he creates according to this greater inner vision. This too is a kind of yogic discipline, for by it he enters into intimate communion with the inner worlds.(The Mother, 28 July 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p19</ref></span>

<span div style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In fact people who work in order to develop their taste, to refine it... is for the cultivation of their senses, which is a very different thing. It is like the artist, you know, who trains his eyes to appreciate forms and colours, lines, the composition of things, the harmony found in physical nature; it is not at all through desire that he does this, it is through taste, culture, the development of the sense of sight and the appreciation of beauty. And usually artists who are real artists and love their art and live in the sense of beauty, seeking beauty, are people who don't have many desires. They live in the sense of a growth not only visual, but of the appreciation of beauty. There is a great difference between this and people who live by their impulses and desires. That's altogether something else. (The Mother, 28 July 192923 February 1955)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0307/2823-julyfebruary-19291955#p19p5</ref></div>

<div style="color: #000000;">In fact people If you ask me, I believe that all those who work in order to develop their tasteproduce something artistic are artists! A word depends upon the way it is used, to refine upon what one puts into it.One may put into it all that one wants.. is for For instance, in Japan there are gardeners who spend their time correcting the cultivation forms of their senses, which is trees so that in the landscape they make a very different thingbeautiful picture. It is like the artist, you know, who trains his eyes to appreciate forms and coloursBy all kinds of trimmings, linesprops, etc. they adjust the composition forms of things, trees. They give them special forms so that each form may be just what is needed in the harmony found landscape. A tree is planted in physical nature; a garden at the spot where it is not at all through desire that he does thisneeded and moreover, it is through taste, culture, given the development of form that's required for it to go well with the sense of sight and the appreciation of beautywhole set-up. And usually artists who are real artists and love their art and live they succeed in doing wonderful things. You have but to take a photograph of the sense of beautygarden, it is a real picture, seeking beautyit is so good. Well, are people I certainly call the man an artist. One may call him a gardener but he is an artist.... All those who don't have many desires. They live a sure and developed sense of harmony in all its forms, and the sense harmony of a growth not only visualall the forms among themselves, are necessarily artists, but of whatever may be the appreciation type of beauty. There is a great difference between this and people who live by their impulses and desiresproduction. That's altogether something else(The Mother, 21 October 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-october-1953#p26</ref></div>

<span div style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You have followed very little of this movement of art I am speaking about, which is related to European civilisation, it has not been felt much here—just a little but not deeply. Here, the majority of creations (this is a very good example), the majority of works, I believe even almost all the beautiful works, are not signed. All those paintings in the caves, those statues in the temples—these are not signed. One does not know at all who created them. And all this was not done with the idea of making a name for oneself as at present. One happened to be a great sculptor, a great painter, a great architect, and then that was all, there was no question of putting one's name on everything and proclaiming it aloud in the newspapers so that no one might forget it! In those days the artist did what he had to do without caring whether his name would go down to posterity or not. All was done in a movement of aspiration to express a higher beauty, and above all with the idea of giving an appropriate abode to the godhead who was evoked. In the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, it was the same thing, and I don't think that there too the names of the artists who made them have remained. If any are there, it is quite exceptional and it is only by chance that the name has been preserved. Whilst today, there is not a tiny little piece of canvas, painted or daubed, but on it is a signature to tell you: it is Mr. So-and-so who made this! (The Mother, 23 February 195528 October 1953)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0705/2328-februaryoctober-19551953#p5p30</ref></div>

<div span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">If you ask me, I believe that all those who produce something artistic are artists! A word depends upon the way it is used, upon what one puts into it. One may put into it all that one wants. For instance, in Japan there are gardeners who spend their time correcting the forms of trees so that in the landscape they make a Copy many beautiful picture. By all kinds of trimmingsthings, props, etc. they adjust the forms of trees. They give them special forms so that each form may be just what is needed in the landscape. A tree is planted in a garden at the spot where it is needed and moreover, it is given the form that's required for it to go well with the whole set-up. And they succeed in doing wonderful things. You have but try even more to take a photograph of catch the gardenemotion, it is a real picture, it is so good. Well, I certainly call the man an artistdeeper life of things<ref>http://incarnateword. One may call him a gardener but he is an artist.... All those who have a sure and developed sense of harmony in all its forms, and the harmony of all the forms among themselves, are necessarily artists, whatever may be the type of their production./cwm/12/arts#p38</ref></divspan>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 21 October 1953)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-october-1953#p26</ref> <div style="color: #000000;">You have followed very little of this movement of art I am speaking about, which is related to European civilisation, it has not been felt much here—just a little but not deeply. Here, the majority of creations (this is a very good example), the majority of works, I believe even almost all the beautiful works, are not signed. All those paintings in the caves, those statues in the temples—these are not signed. One does not know at all who created them. And all this was not done with the idea of making a name for oneself as at present. One happened to be a great sculptor, a great painter, a great architect, and then that was all, there was no question of putting one's name on everything and proclaiming it aloud in the newspapers so that no one might forget it! In those days the artist did what he had to do without caring whether his name would go down to posterity or not. All was done in a movement of aspiration to express a higher beauty, and above all with the idea of giving an appropriate abode to the godhead who was evoked. In the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, it was the same thing, and I don't think that there too the names of the artists who made them have remained. If any are there, it is quite exceptional and it is only by chance that the name has been preserved. Whilst today, there is not a tiny little piece of canvas, painted or daubed, but on it is a signature to tell you: it is Mr. So-and-so who made this!</div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 28 October 1953)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/28-october-1953#p30</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Copy many beautiful things, but try even more to catch the emotion, the deeper life of things.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p38</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Why do you want to do the details? That is not at all necessary. Painting is not done to copy Nature, but to express an impression, a feeling, an emotion that we experience on seeing the beauty of Nature. It is this that is interesting and it is this that has to be expressed...</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p49</ref></span>