9 March :
True Art can be compared to a lily which springs from the ground, takes
its nourishment from the ground, is in touch with the ground, and yet
is quite high above it. So Art must be in touch with nature — and
wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates — yet it must be above
nature.
Art is — representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.
The artistic faculty was highly developed in our Lord Shri Ramakrishna, and he used to say that without this faculty none can be truly spiritual.
In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme. Drama is the
most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied —
first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be
painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to
keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing
is stage-management, that is, combining different things in such a
manner as to keep the central interest intact.
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