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<div span style="color: #000000;">The discipline of Art has at its centre the same principle as the discipline of Yoga. In both the aim is to become more and more conscious; in both you have to learn to see and feel something that is beyond the ordinary vision and feeling, to go within and bring out from there deeper things. Painters have to follow a discipline for the growth of the consciousness of their eyes, which in itself is almost a Yoga. If they are true artists and try to see beyond and use their art for the expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga. Why then should not Yogic consciousness be a help to artistic creation? (The Mother, 28 July 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p7</ref></divspan>

<div span style="color: #000000;">To do this yoga, one must have, at least a little, the sense of beauty. If one does not, one misses one of the most important aspects of the physical world. (The Mother, 1 July 1958) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p1</ref></divspan>

<div span style="color: #000000;">The aesthetic and emotional mind and aesthetic forms are used by Yoga as a support for concentration even in the Yoga of knowledge and are, sublimated, the whole means of the Yoga of love and delight, as life and action, sublimated, are the whole means of the Yoga of works. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p10</ref></divspan>

<div span style="color: #000000;">Art, poetry, music are not Yoga, not in themselves things spiritual any more than philosophy either is a thing spiritual or science… </divspan>