Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo — Sahana Devi

August 16, 1933

A painter who has a true artistic taste and eye is like that. But you said to X simply «a painter» without giving him the opportunity to reply that there are many painters (he named some) who had no taste in dress – for if you say a painter it means a man whose profession is to paint.