<div style="color:#000000;">… "art" was no longer to express physical life but mental life or vital life. And so came all the schools, like the Cubists and others, who created from their head. But in art it is not the head that dominates, it is the feeling for beauty. And they produced absurd and ridiculous and frightful things. Now they have gone farther still, but that, that is due to the wars—with every war there descends upon earth a world in decomposition which produces a sort of chaos. And some, of course, find all this very beautiful and admire it very much.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 October 1953)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/28-october-1953#p7</ref></u></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">… "art" was no longer to express physical life but mental life or vital life. And so came all the schools, like the Cubists and others, who created from their head. But in art it is not the head that dominates, it is the feeling for beauty. And they produced absurd and ridiculous and frightful things. Now they have gone farther still, but that, that is due to the wars—with every war there descends upon earth a world in decomposition which produces a sort of chaos. And some, of course, find all this very beautiful and admire it very much.</div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 October 1953)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/28-october-1953#p7</u></span><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. </span>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 July 1929)</div>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p14</ref>