object:1969_09_04 - 143
book class:On Thoughts And Aphorisms
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1969 Thu 4 September
Aphorism - 143, 144
143If Arts service is but to imitate Nature, then burn all the picture galleries and let us have instead photographic studios. It is because Art reveals what Nature hides that a small picture is worth more than all the jewels of the millionaires and the treasures of the princes.
144If you only imitate visible Nature, you will perpetrate either a corpse, a dead sketch or a monstrosity; Truth lives in that which goes behind and beyond the visible and sensible.
Photograph y is said to be a medium of modern art. What is your opinion about this?
It all depends on the way in which photograph y is used. Its natural purpose and common use is documentary; the more exact and precise it is, the more useful it is.
But undeniably, there are artists who use photograph y as a medium of expression. But then what they do is no longer an exact copy of Nature, it is an arrangement of forms and colours intended to express something else which is usually hidden by physical appearances.
4 September 1969
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Aphorism - 142
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