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<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.</span>
<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 July 1929)</div>
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p19</ref></u></div>
<div style="color:#000000;">… art must act as a revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in life; that is to say, an artist should be capable of entering into communion with the Divine and of receiving inspiration about what form or forms ought to be used to express the divine beauty in matter. And thus, if it does that, art can be a means of realisation of beauty, and at the same time a teacher of what beauty ought to be, that is, art should be an element in the education of men's taste, of young and old, and it is the teaching of true beauty, that is, the essential beauty which expresses the divine truth.</div>
<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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p35</ref></u></span>
=== Expression Through Worship - Dance, Music & Metaphor ===