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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Let </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">be your constant ideal.The </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the soulThe </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of sentimentsThe </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of thoughtsThe </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the action</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">in the workso that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an expression of pure and harmonious </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''beauty'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span>[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p3 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12</arts#p3]ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You must have a </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''strong body and strong nerves'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. You must have a strong basis of equanimity in your external being. If you have this basis, you can contain a world of emotion and yet not have to scream it out. This does not mean that you cannot express your emotion, but you can express it in a beautiful harmonious way. To weep or scream or </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">dance about is always a proof of weakness, either of the vital or the mental or the physical nature; for on all these levels the activity is for self-satisfaction. One who dances and jumps and screams has the feeling that he is somehow very unusual in his excitement; and his vital nature takes great pleasure in that.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 14 April 1929)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p24</u></spanref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p38</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Why do you want to do the details? That is not at all necessary. Painting is not done to copy Nature, but to express an impression, a feeling, an emotion that we experience on seeing the beauty of Nature. It is this that is interesting and it is this that has to be expressed...</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p49</u></spanref>