... give them this kind of significance? But there are more grave and important objections in this criticism; for Mr. Archer turns also to deal with philosophy in art. The whole basis of Indian artistic creation, perfectly conscious and recognised in the canons, is directly spiritual and intuitive. Mr. Havell rightly lays stress on this essential distinction and speaks in passing of the infinite superiority... Balzac's or Ibsen's, but the essential part of the process, that which makes it intuitive, is the same. The Buddhistic, the Vedantic seeing of things may be equally powerful starting-points for artistic creation, may lead one to the calm of a Buddha or the other to the rapture dance or majestic stillness of Shiva, and it is quite indifferent to the purposes of art to which of them the metaphysician may... superstition of the imitation of Nature as the first law or the limiting rule of art governed even the freest work and gave its tone to the artistic and critical intelligence. The canons of Western artistic creation were held to be the sole valid criteria and everything else was regarded as primitive and half-developed or else strange and fantastic and interesting only by its curiosity. But a remarkable change ...
... status of manhood. Similarly if manners – the influence of the inner Being– Page 131 are visible in the artistic creation, then despite many minor flaws it will look beautiful, great and precious. In fact, we never find vulgarity in the artistic creation of any true artist. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Oscar Wilde – these creators who dived deep into the very core of natural experiences... of life, consciousness and being. Anything else of deeper significance has sunk into the abyss of oblivion. In one word, 'Art for Art's sake' has been the present-day principle in the field of artistic creation. The artist does not care for any extrinsic ideal or aim. He finds his ideal and aim in himself. He grows of himself, he establishes himself and he realises himself in his own creation. Far from... Itself – "Know Thyself". In modern times 'self' signifies something exoteric, the surface consciousness acting through the brain and nerves. The moderns hold that the essence of art and artistic creation consists in complete expression of one's own self, but like the Virochana of the Upanishad, who took the body for the Self, they have applied the word 'self' to mean the consciousness acting through ...
... issues from elsewhere . Must artistic creation cease being human, then; must it cease relying upon the human?—which would then mean having to reject so many undeniably great painters, poets or writers? Must one wait to be open to the supramental planes of consciousness before being able to reconcile (assuming such reconciliation is possible) yoga and artistic creation? And, until then, smother all... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 Undated 1956 ( Letter to Mother from Satprem ) Pondicherry All artistic creation is born of a question, a conflict, a discord with oneself, mankind or the cosmos. What painter, what poet, what writer has not wrenched from this conflict the best of his art, from Michelangelo to Goya, from Van Gogh to Rodin, from Villon to... Baudelaire or Dostoevski? And the work of art—the painting, novel or poem—is a harmony torn from this disharmony, a conquest over some chaos, a response to a question posed by man—a metamorphosis. Artistic creation relies upon that which is most unique in man, most singular with respect to others, and it is through this singular uniqueness that the artist achieves his metamorphosis, his re-creation of the ...
... inner and the truer, the inner being or the inner form of the object. Every artistic creation has an object and a field of the intuitive vision or of the depth of experience; every artistic creation has a method of working out the vision or experience or suggestions of vision or experience; and every artistic creation is marked by the vibration of the vision or experience into the mode of its rendering... rendering by the external Page 476 form and technique, and every artistic creation has behind it something holistic, both in its composition and its appeal, in the manner in which the creation is rendered to the human mind and how it is related to the centre of the being to which the artistic work is intended to appeal. If we now ask the question as to what distinguishes Indian art ...
... Every artistic creation has an object and a field of the intuitive vision or of the depth of experience; every artistic creation has a method of working out the vision or experience or suggestions of vision or experience; and every artistic creation is marked by the vibration of the vision or experience into the mode of its rendering by the external form and technique, and every artistic creation has ...
... day, when she was telling him that the zones of artistic creation being in the highest reaches of the human consciousness, Art could be a wonderful instrument for spiritual progress, she happened to make an observation, "This world of creation is also the world of the gods; but the gods, I regret to say, don't at all have a taste for artistic creation." The gods protested. Page 161 ... elder brother Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938). It was the help of Ernest Benfield Havell, who was the Art School's Principal from 1896 to 1906 and who recognized that the whole basis of Indian artistic creation is directly spiritual and intuitive, that made this new thrust possible. Havell persuaded Aban Thakur to become the Art School's Vice-Principal; Gagan Thakur became its energetic General Secretary ...
... question? Regarding the film we saw, what is the place of suffering in artistic creation? The film? We saw that through suffering... Oh, oh, oh, oh!... the film about Berlioz? His music matured through suffering... Yes, yes, so what place...? Where does it come from? Suffering—how does it help artistic creation? How does it help? That depends on people. Some people are very ...
... is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the... consciousness may be described as lying behind or within it. The movement of the inner consciousness has found expression more often and more largely than that of over-consciousness in the artistic creation of the past : and that was in keeping with the nature of the old-world inspiration, for the inspiration that comes from the inner consciousness, which can be considered as the lyrical inspiration ...
... is possible, and now necessary, to raise the centre of artistic creation to " Overhead" levels of consciousness and create from there. He also points out that these "over- head " levels have always existed and have acted intermittently. They have been not only influencing but now and then penetrating into various fields of artistic creation. Some illustrations from poetry, which Sri Aurobindo ...
... discrimination could have made possible. Sri Aurobindo correctly lays down at the outset that art criticism should first take note of "the spirit, aim, essential motives from which a type of artistic creation starts". 23 No doubt all great art springs ultimately from "an act of intuition". Where, then, begins the immense divergence between Western and Indian art? It can only be in the practical details... Aesthetic insight is enough to take the measure of a European work of art, but spiritual insight too is needed if one is to take in the full meaning - the spiralling connotation - of a typical Indian artistic creation grounded on the Spirit. Aside from the originating "intuition", there is also the enveloping force of "form", for "all art reposes on some unity and all its details, whether few and ...
... for a view of what is around us which, far from being really disinterested and impersonal, is a creation of our own temperament and a satisfaction of our intellectualised individuality. But in artistic creation where the isolation is not possible, we find quite an opposite phenomenon, the subjective personality of the poet asserting itself to a far greater extent than in former ages of humanity. Goethe... this more inner and intuitive vision. The futurist outlook has never been more pronounced than at the present day; on all sides, in thought, in life, in the motives and forms of literary and artistic creation, we are swinging violently away from the past into an unprecedented adventure of new teeming Page 121 possibilities. Never has the past counted so little for its own sake,—its tradition ...
... light. Great waves of colored light. ( silence ) All those zones of artistic creation are very high up in human consciousness, which is why art can be a wonderful tool for spiritual progress. For this world of creation is also the world of the gods; but the gods, I am sorry to say, have absolutely no taste for artistic creation. 1 They feel absolutely no need for permanence Page 390 ...
... is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their. task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the... consciousness may be described as lying behind or within it. The movement of the inner consciousness has. found expression more often and more largely than that of over-consciousness in the artistic creation of the past: and that was in keeping with the nature of the old-world inspiration, for the inspiration that comes from the inner consciousness, which can be considered as the lyrical inspiration ...
... Cezanne. The circle almost seemed complete when the modernist artist tried "Primitivism" with a vengeance. Manytriedtoderiveinspirationform Negro primitives. Looking at the vast output of artistic creation during this period, we find that there has been an unusual number of new "forms"—forms unknown before. But it may be admitted that so far as "beauty" is concerned, there seemed to be a great ebb... is interested in life and movement, his desire-soul, for his true being. It is even true that this Vital being in man, his being of life-force, can and often does create great art. In all true artistic creation this vital element is needed to give life to it. It draws its material not merely from the great ocean of life around but with the help of imagination it can create powerful, new forms which have ...
... chord; Dharma, next to spirit, is its foundation of life. There is no ethical idea which it has not stressed, put in its most ideal and imperative form, enforced by teaching, injunction, parable, artistic creation, formative examples. Truth, honour, loyalty, fidelity, courage, chastity, love, long-suffering, self-sacrifice, harmlessness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, beneficence are its common themes ...
... to link it on to the later schools of Rajput painting. The history of the self-expression of the Indian mind in painting covers a period of as much as two millenniums of more or less intense artistic creation and stands on a par in this respect with the architecture and sculpture. The paintings that remain to us from ancient times are the work of Buddhist painters, but the art itself in India was ...
... partially relieved by them and only for a time. In your own case, it was already beginning to pall on you and that was why you turned from it. No doubt, there were the joys of the intellect and of artistic creation, but a man cannot be an artist alone; there is the outer quite human lower vital part and, in all but a few, it is the most clamorous and insistent part. But what was dissatisfied in you? It was ...
... Ode A successful ode must be a perfect architectural design and Keats' Odes are among the best, if not the best in English poetry, as I think they are, at any rate from the point of view of artistic creation, because of the perfect way in which the central thought is developed and each part related to the whole like the design of the masses in a perfect building—each taking its inevitable place ...
... technique and not the embodiment of the imperishable truth of beauty seized in its inner reality, its divine delight, its appeal to a supreme source of ecstasy, Ananda. There have been periods of artistic creation, ages of reason, in which the rational and intellectual tendency has prevailed in poetry and art; there have even been nations which in their great formative periods of art and literature have ...
... emotional or descriptive appeal, but may very well miss that depth of profounder substance and that self-possessing plenitude of form which are the other and indispensable elements of a rounded artistic creation. Beauty of poetical expression abounds in an unstinted measure, but for the music of a deeper spirit or higher significance we have to wait; the attempt at it we get, but not often all the success ...
... restriction of the activities; there may be an opening of new capacities of mental creation and new provinces of knowledge by the miraculous touch of the Yoga-Shakti. Aesthetic feeling, the power of artistic creation in one field or many fields together, talent or genius of literary expression, a faculty of metaphysical thinking, any power of eye or ear or hand or mind-power may awaken where none was apparent ...
... waves, as mountains to assault Heaven's highth, and with the Centre mix the Pole. The single-tracked figure you conjure of your early tutor, a critic preoccupied with one limited mode of artistic creation, I am tempted to stigmatise with the pun: "Penny-wise and Pound-foolish." In addition to appreciating Pound's impact on the litera- Page 146 ture of the first few decades of the ...
... outlet, he should not have muffled a voice from his past that had rung so beautifully true. Nor should he have let himself be cowed by the superficial tendency of the public to declaim against an artistic creation if it did not reflect the man as he might be at the moment. Few artists are on a par with the height and depth of consciousness opening up before us in their works. It would be crass folly for ...
... and empty notion of being to the Absolute Idea. We shall understand the nature of philosophical reasoning better if we compare it with a process of biological growth or even with artistic creation of significant form from an inchoate idea rather than with the linear process of mathematical reasoning. The tree is potentially in the seed but not implicit in it in the way in which a ...
... expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga. Why then should not Yogic consciousness be a help to artistic creation?... There is one way in which Yoga may stop the artist's productive impulse. If the origin of his art is in the vital world, once he becomes a Yogi he will lose his inspiration or rather ...
... to us that when we discover what is, we build). If we were not so tangled up in time, if our yearning for the future equalled our nostalgia for the past, surely we would see the process of artistic creation with different eyes. I will admit that I do not believe in the necessity of hard labour. Something in me has always rejected the ancient biblical prophecy (or curse): "in the sweat of ...
... thinking of both the prelude and the grand finale of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, exquisite with now poignant now defunctive music. To avoid yielding to such grandeurs and sonorities of artistic creation simply on the doctrinaire grounds that Sri Aurobindo is not for such romantic escapism would mean missing a mighty though indirect upliftment to the Yoga of Bhakti, of Devotion, seeking to merge ...
... it's like letting oneself flow along, but on a luminous stream. So, ever since this has been there, all Page 136 human stories, all their stories in all fields, from politics to artistic creation and all that, oh, I find it terribly futile—and so ridiculously agitated. My idea (if I have one), and what makes me persist in writing, is that all that I have said in an intellectual way ...
... the sequence that runs invisibly through the literary stateliness of the narrative. In fact, when the main line of reasoning is thus established the story so formed that itself becomes an artistic creation. Can a similar undertaking, be it in prose or poetry, have any acceptability for the spiritual poem which Savitri is? Can meditations be taken as arguments? But then this would amount ...
... him. There is something here that goes beyond any consideration of Art for Art's sake or Art for Beauty's sake; for while these stress usefully sometimes the indispensable first elements of artistic creation, they would limit too much the creation itself if they stood for the exclusion of the something More that compels Art to change always in its constant seeking for more and more that must be ...
... keeping with the oral tradition. Homer created the Iliad and the Odyssey by taking building blocks of material from the poets who preceded him and .reshaping them to form the foundations of his artistic creation. These blocks included various myths about the gods and about heroes of old (the fathers of the heroes of the Trojan War), myths about the war with Troy and its various participants, from long ...
... system of tests that is prevalent today cannot be changed or only marginally changed. But, if students are required to maintain their progress reports on those activities, compositions, essays, artistic creation which they have participated in or produced and which in their own judgment are of a high quality, and if these progress reports of the minimum duration of three years, are subjected to scrutiny ...
... a conflict – as of oil and water. In Madhusudan these two discordances were distinct and quite marked. It was in the works of Bankim that a true synthesis commenced. Still, on the whole, the artistic creation of that age was something like putting on a dhoti with its play of Page 158 creases and folds, and over it a streamlined coat and waistcoat and necktie. Both the fashions are beautiful ...
... is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major ...
... contents of experience, that it has become only a system of geometrical formulae. The recoil from the brute facts of life, the concrete living realities has affected even the world of artistic creation. We are very much familiar with what has been called abstract art, that is to say, art denuded of all content. The supreme art today is this sketch of bare skeleton —even a skeleton, not in its ...
... a deeper or higher or subtler consciousness. Along with the demons there is also a line of daimona , guardian angels, in the hierarchy of vital beings. Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their ...
... the Divine, in a word-is ¹ The Gita, II. 40 Page 6 the highest ideal of spirituality; viewed – the spirituality that Sri Aurobindo practises – is the ne plus ultra of artistic creation. Page 7 ...
... Indeed, Tagore is also ancient, as ancient as the Upanishads. The great truths, the basic realities experienced and formulated by the ancients ring clear and distinct in the core of all his artistic creation. Tagore's intellectual make-up may be as rationalistic and scientific as that of any typical modern man. Nor does he discard the good things (preya) that earth and life offer to man for ...
... life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major role ...
... way. Then follows an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to find new things and express them in a new way. The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appeared – those of a commercial age. So the curve ...
... rational mind. Though many of their patterns appear to us rather chaotic or fantastic, there are some which are manifest marvels of symmetry and beauty. They have inspired many an exquisite artistic creation and exercised the thought and speculation of many a poet and philosopher and psychologist. There are again some dreams which, whether simple or symbolical, possess a prophetic character and reveal ...
... moral fervour and intellectual curiosity, the spontaneous springings of Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love. As he passionately responds to these, and with delightful images makes Page 88 artistic creation of the highest order comes from a suprarational source was well established even in the earliest dawn of its culture —the Vedic Age. There is plenty of poetry written dominantly from the imaginative ...
... is not indispensable for the experience of beauty while I have heard artists say that form is indis-pensable for creation. A. You are confusing two things,—Experience of beauty and artistic creation. To creation form is indispensable: there can be no creation without form. But that is not true of all experience of beauty. Q. Speaking of art-creation I am reminded of the modernist ...
... or at least commenced something like a revolution in the aesthetic standpoint of Western critics. Competent minds have turned their attention to Indian work and assigned it a high place in the artistic creation of the East and even the average European writer has been partly compelled to understand that Indian statuary and Indian painting have canons of their own and cannot be judged either by a Hellenistic ...
... culture. The last period shows no Page 382 doubt a gradual decline, but one may note the splendour even of the decline and especially the continued vitality of religious, literary and artistic creation. At the moment when it seemed to be drawing to a close it has revived at the first chance and begins again another cycle, at first precisely in the three things that lasted the longest, spiritual ...
... with Indian things: this Moslem architecture suggests not only unbridled luxury, but effeminacy and decadence! But in that case, whatever its beauty, it belongs entirely to a secondary plane of artistic creation and cannot rank with the great spiritual aspirations in stone of the Hindu builders. I do not demand "moral suggestions" from architecture, but is it true that there is nothing but a sensuous ...
... painting are only a useless scribbling on paper, an insane hacking of stone and an effeminate daubing of canvas; Vauban, Pestalozzi, Dr. Parr, Vatel and Beau Brummell are then the true heroes of artistic creation and not Da Vinci, Angelo, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare or Rodin. Whether Mr. Archer's epithets and his accusations against Indian spirituality stand in the comparison, let the judicious determine ...
... beauty and nobility of the work which was accomplished, was a very great and perfect thing, but it is idle to maintain that that is the sole possible method or the one permanent and natural law of artistic creation. Its highest greatness subsisted only so long—and it was not for very long—as a certain satisfying balance was struck and constantly maintained between a fine, but not very subtle, opulent or ...
... Paradise on this mortal Earth is bom to grow in the Ways of the Infinite. 23: Fine jewellers and gem-setters often remain themselves unrecognised and what is generally adored is their artistic creation. In their hand even the commonest metal can acquire a godly quality of amazement which we may profitably worship. In India where a roadside stone can be turned into an idol, it is little wonder ...
... partially relieved by them and only for a time. In your own case, it was already beginning to pall on you and that was why you turned from it. No doubt, there were the joys of the intellect and of artistic creation, but a man cannot be an artist alone; there is the outer, quite human, lower vital part and, in all but a few, it is the most clamourous and insistent part. But what was dissatisfied in you? It ...
... relieved by them and only for a time. In your own, case, it was already beginning to pall on you and that was why you turned from it. No doubt, there were the joys of the intellect and of artistic creation, but a man cannot be an artist alone; there is the outer, quite human lower vital part and, in all but a few, it is the most clamorous and insistent part. But what was dissatisfied in you? It ...
... a good deal of benefit in the field of social relations, political procedures and even international adjustments. Again, as marked by both Huxley and Heard, psychedelics can be a spur to artistic creation. A study of the sense- impressions of the poet, the painter and the musician discloses striking parallelisms with the vision of object and scene, the perception of shape and sound, which the taker ...
... expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga. Why then should not Yogic consciousness be a help to artistic creation? After that the Mother started sending me numerous objects from her rare collections for painting, and also many varieties of exquisite flowers, along with her own sketches, in order to show ...
... we look at it not in detail, not merely revelling in beauty of line and phrase and image, in snatches of song and outbursts of poetic richness and creative force, but as a whole, in its total artistic creation, it bears a certain stamp of defect and failure. It cannot be placed for a moment as a supreme force of excellence in literary culture by the side of the great ages of Greek and Roman poetry which ...
... to express it in the terms of beauty, to kalon, to epieikes , the beautiful, the becoming. Its very religion was a religion of beauty and an occasion for pleasant ritual and festivals and for artistic creation, an aesthetic enjoyment touched with a superficial religious sense. But without character, without some kind of high or strong discipline there is no enduring power of life. Athens exhausted its ...
... him. There is something here that goes beyond any considerations of Art for Art's sake or Art for Beauty's sake; for while these stress usefully sometimes the indispensable first elements of artistic creation, they would limit too much the creation itself if they stood for the exclusion of the something More that compels Art to change always in its constant seeking for more and more that must be expressed ...
... expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga. Why then should not Yogic consciousness be a help to artistic creation? I have known some who had very little training and skill and yet through Yoga acquired a fine capacity in writing and painting. Two examples I can cite to you. One was a girl who had no education ...
... draws close to a greater height. But there is something else, that is a social point of view: there is a period, like the Age of Louis XIV for example, in which what predominated was the sense of artistic creation, and this sense seems to have given a certain perception of beauty at that moment; but afterwards social evolution brought in other needs and other ideas, and now, for more than a century it is ...
... expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga. Why then should not Yogic consciousness be a help to artistic creation? I have known some who had very little training and skill and yet through Yoga acquired a fine capacity in writing and painting. Source A Living Art When one paints a picture or ...
... (Polynesian, for example). Page 177 the effect of the beauty of form, or create the atmosphere and environment necessary for its display. A Chinese or a Japanese piece of artistic creation is more of a study in character than in form; but it is a study in character in a deeper sense than the meaning which the term usually bears to an European mind or when it is used in reference ...
... an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to find new things and Page 176 express in a new way. The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appeared—those of a commercial age. So the curve ...
... Page 184 one could put all this power of vibration that belongs to the vital into the music of higher origin we would have the music of a genius. Indeed, for music and for all artistic creation, in fact, for literature, for poetry, for painting etc. an intermediary is needed. Whatever one does in these domains depends doubtless for its intrinsic value upon the source of the inspiration ...
... a deeper or higher or subtler consciousness. Along with the demons there is also a line of daimona, guardian angels, in the hierarchy of vital beings. Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their ...
... from a deeper or higher or subtler consciousness. Along with the demons there is also a line of daimom, guardian angels, in the hierarchy of vital beings. Much of what is known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandhar-vas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their ...
... the contents of experience, that it has become only a system of geometrical formulae. The recoil from the brute facts of life, the concrete living realities has affected even the world of artistic creation. We are very much familiar with what has been called abstract art, that is to say, art denuded of all content. The supreme art today is this sketch of bare skeleton – even a skeleton, not in its ...
... Vedic Rishi says that the poet by his poetic power created a heavenly form -kavih kavitva divi rupam asajat. As a matter of fact, a supreme beauty of form has often marked the very apex of artistic creation. Now, what does the Philosopher do? The sculptor hews beautiful forms out of marble, the poet fashions beautiful forms out of words, the musician shapes beautiful forms out of sounds. And the ...
... play the vital energy. If one could put all this power of vibration that belongs to that vital into the music of higher origin we would have the music of a genius. Indeed, for music and for all artistic creation, in fact, for literature, for poetry, for painting, etc. an intermediary is needed. Whatever one does in these domains depends doubtless for its intrinsic value upon the source of the inspiration ...
... had conquered his heart. Had he been acquainted with Sanskrit literature he would have included Valmiki and the Vedic seers. As a matter of fact, what we want to derive from poetry or any other artistic creation is a glimpse of the Infinite and the Eternal. When the heart opens wide, it soars aloft to clasp the whole universe with its outspread wings. In the absence of the spirit of universality any work ...
... the Vedic Rishi says that the poet by his poetic power created a heavenly form— kavih kavitva divi rupam asajat. As a matter of fact, a supreme beauty of form has often marked the very apex of artistic creation. Now, what does the Philosopher do? The sculptor hews beautiful forms out of marble, the poet fashions beautiful forms out of words, the musician shapes beautiful forms out of sounds. And the ...
... neither spring from genuine religious feeling and emotion nor from sincere artistic inspiration. The desire for novelty, the need to be striking, straining for effect ete., can hardly give real artistic creation. Such efforts cannot satisfy the aesthetic feeling in the onlooker, they may at the most excite his curiosity. The thirst for beauty remains unquenched in face of these works. This very ...
... violent angry old man, and the horse is also wild and angry. "I can't say I'm impressed." If you can compare his work with the etchings of Rembrandt, you will see the difference between true artistic creation and imaginative work. I related Lawrence Binyon's remarks in the preface that these works make an impression on the mind and don't so much appeal to the aesthetic senses and so you are di ...
... the theme is music, the divers sources - psychic, higher vital, vital, physical - of its inspiration, the difference between Western and Indian music, and between melody and harmony. In all artistic creation, inspiration and execution have to match each other so as to produce something unique and imperishable: The true value of one's creation depends on the origin of one's inspiration, on ...
... "When I looked at a painting, suddenly there would be an opening in my head and I would see the origin of the painting —and such colours!" In those days Mirra had no knowledge of the zones of artistic creation. All her experiences came "unexpected, unsought." Mirra also knew some people who, "when they began playing, felt as if another hand had entered theirs, and who would play in such a wonderful ...
... knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and a perfect harmony. 45 Sports, tournaments, good works, artistic creation, Yogic discipline, all have but one aim: "transformation", so as to realise perfection. Perfect the individual - perfect the group - and thereby prepare the way for the perfection of the race ...
... and invaluable contribution. This will indeed be a suitable venue for the rare and precious artefacts of the Mother that you have collected over the years, as well as for your own remarkable artistic creations. I look forward to its development over the next year or two and will try and meet with you when I visit Auroville later this year. I hope this finds you well. With good wishes, Yours ...
... I feel some movement coming down from above and as if it was broadening my head and face. The whole movement is towards the Mother. What can this be? Has it any direct relation with my artistic creations? Yes. It is the result of the pressure put by the Mother to see and do things in the true light. What you feel coming down is the true consciousness with the presence and action of the Mother ...
... In Sri Aurobindo's terminology, the Overmind represents the highest level of the mind, the world of the gods and origin of all the revelations and highest artistic creations—the world that has ruled mental man till now. ...
... name for the magazine, because "India is a country whose very birth-cry, so to speak, was for the Superhuman, the Divine in concrete experience. The Vedas and the Upanishads are not primarily artistic creations, structures of speculative thought or manuals of morality and religious injunction. No doubt, they are masterpieces of poetic beauty and sub-limity, embalm enormous audacities of the thinking ...
... In Sri Aurobindo's terminology, the 'Overmind' represents the highest level of the mind, the world of the gods and origin of all the revelations and highest artistic creations—the world that has ruled mental man till now. in his gradations of the worlds, Sri Aurobindo speaks of two hemispheres, the upper hemisphere and the lower. The Overmind is the line between these... a sort of radiation spreading out.... I can still see my vision. 2 ( silence ) There is always what could almost be called a popular way of presenting things. Take the whole Story of the Creation, of how things have come about: it can be told as an unfolding story (this is what Theon did in a book he called The Tradition —he told the whole story in the Biblical manner, with psychological... involution had to be undone. The way Theon told it, there was first the universal Mother (he didn't call her the universal Mother, but Sri Aurobindo used that name), the universal Mother in charge of creation. For creating she made four emanations: Consciousness or Light; Life; Love or Beatitude and ( Mother tries in vain to remember the fourth )... I must have cerebral anemia today! In India they speak ...
... art, then you are master, if you will, of all the arts. 9 When this subject came up for discussion again on 28 October 1953, the Mother made the point that, in India, the majority of artistic creations - the paintings in the caves, for example, and the statues in the temples were not signed: In those days the artist did what he had to do without caring whether his name would go down... worth living for, and it is love!" And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. 45 What was this world but insentient matter, till the Divine Love came down and stirred it into life? Love has... the subject "Spirituality and Morality" discussed in Conversation XV was reopened on 4 November 1953. The Mother had said in 1929 that morality was not Divine or of the Divine; it was a human creation or fabrication, reared on the base of a more or less arbitrary division of things into the good and the bad. 11 In 1953, the Mother was even more forthright: We have had frequent instances ...
... mystical for the modem mind, but that these powers have been acting intermittently in man's consciousness through out the ages. Man has been,—may be unconsciously—familiar with them in his artistic creations. These faculties of the Overhead planes,—Inspiration, Intuition and Revelation,—are known to man; the Greeks knew about them, so did the ancient Indians. "Kavi"—the word that came in classical... aesthetic creation. These creations already exist on the planes above Mind; the poet's task consists in bringing them down or allowing them to descend into his consciousness. There are active and passive methods of reception. All great poetry may be said to be such a direct reception—sometimes mixed with the stuff of the poet's nature. Sri Aurobindo says that now is the time when the seat of creation may... incarnates the power and effectuates the transformation. II. OVERHEAD PLANES AND AESTHESIS Sanskrit poetics, Rasa Shastra, takes note of literary creations from higher levels of consciousness beyond Mind: Overhead creations like the Veda, the Upanishads, the Gita and the two great epics—Ramayana and Maha Bharata—were put outside the scope of ordinary aesthetics. Aesthetics are limited ...
... thunders or from nowhere; those who incarnate the particular Page 183 revelation have not conceived it from nothing: the overmind is their source. It is also the source of the higher artistic creations. But we must remember that, although it is the summit, it is still a mental plane. When consciousness rises to that plane, it no longer sees "point by point," but calmly in great masses.... only the junction of the perpetual end and the eternal beginning; it is the sign of a creation which is new at every moment. The creation was for ever, is for ever, shall be for ever. The Eternal, Infinite and One is the magical middle-term of his own existence; it is he that is the beginningless and endless creation. And when is the end? There is no end. At no conceivable moment can there be a cessation... in a day. It is a question of the right silence in the mind and the right openness to the Word that is trying to express itself – for the Word is there ready formed in those inner planes where all artistic forms take birth, but it is the transmitting mind that must change and become a perfect channel and not an obstacle. 191 Poetry is the most convenient means of conveying what these higher ...
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