Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 2

Fragment ID: 11592

Every artist almost (there are rare exceptions) has got something of the “public” man in him, in his vital physical parts, the need of the stimulus of an audience, social applause, satisfied vanity or fame. That must go absolutely if he wants to be a Yogi and his art a service not of man or of his own ego but of the Divine.