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== Beauty in Art ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''True art means the expression of beauty in the material world.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p15</ref>
 <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">True art is intended to express the beautiful, but in close intimacy with the universal movement. The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">a part of life and made it subservient to life. Art was like that in Japan in its best moments; it was like that in all the best moments in the history of art. But most artists are like parasites growing on the margin of life; they do not seem to know that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''art should be the expression of the Divine in life and through life'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. In everything, everywhere, in all relations truth must be brought out in its all-embracing rhythm and every movement of life should be an expression of beauty and harmony. Skill is not art, talent is not art. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Art is a living harmony and beauty that must be expressed in all the movements of existence.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This manifestation of beauty and harmony is part of the Divine realisation upon earth, perhaps even its greatest part.</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p14</ref>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...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, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">'''art should be an element in the education of men's taste'''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">, of young and old, and it is the teaching of true beauty, that is, the essential beauty which expresses the divine truth. This is the raison d'être of art. Now, between this and what is done there is a great difference, but this is the true raison d'être of art.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...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, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''art should be an element in the education of men's taste'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, of young and old, and it is the teaching of true beauty, that is, the essential beauty which expresses the divine truth. This is the raison d'être of art. Now, between this and what is done there is a great difference, but this is the true raison d'être of art.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 28 October 1953)</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/28-october-1953#p4</ref>
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