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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The mistake of the artist is to believe that artistic production is something that stands by itself and for itself, independent of the rest of the world. Art as understood by these artists is like a mushroom on the wide soil of life, something casual and external, not something intimate to life; it does not reach and touch the deep and abiding realities, it does not become an intrinsic and inseparable part of existence. True art is intended to express the beautiful, but in close intimacy with the universal movement. (The Mother, 28 July 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p14</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To create something truly beautiful, he has first to see it within, to realise it as a whole in his inner consciousness; only when so found, seen, held within, can he execute it outwardly; he creates according to this greater inner vision. (The Mother, 28 July 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p19</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are truths and there are transcriptions of truths; the transcriptions may be accurate or may be free and imaginative… Poetic imagination is very usually satisfied with beauty of idea and image only and the aesthetic pleasure of it, but there is something behind it which supplies the Truth in its images, and to get the transcription also direct from that something or somewhere behind should be the aim of mystic or spiritual poetry. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/the-aim-of-the-mystic-poet#p1</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">True art means the expression of beauty in the material world. In a world wholly converted, that is to say, expressing integrally the divine reality, art must serve as the revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p15</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If these painters were sincere, if they truly painted what they feel and see, the picture would be the expression of a confused mind and an unruly vital. But, unhappily, the painters are not sincere and then these pictures are nothing else than the expression of a falsehood, an artificial imagination based only on the will to be strange and to bewilder the public in order to attract attention and that has indeed very little to do with beauty. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p35</ref></span>