Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

8 September 1963

Dearest Mother,

The following “Words” of yours will go very well as an accompaniment to those on modern art which I am using for the September issue of Mother India. Do you approve of their publication? (Amal sent both the French original and his English translation. Below only the English is given.)

Why do you want to do the details? They are not at all necessary. Painting is not done in order 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, and it is because you have the possibility of doing this that I encourage you to paint.

It is all right but — excuse me — I find your English somewhat “heavy”.

8 September 1963