Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 7401

On Nandalal Bose’s Ideas on Art [1]

Nandalal Bose says: “In art three points are essential. We may say that the top point of the triangle is inspiration and the two points of the base are the study of nature and the study of tradition.”

Nandalal’s saying is true; but the three have to be combined and developed and harmonised in their combination to a sufficient degree before they bear the fruit of finished or great art.

10 January 1936