Sri Aurobindo
Letters on Poetry and Art
SABCL - Volume 27
Part 3. Literature, Art, Beauty and Yoga
Section 2. On the Visual Arts
Painting in the Ashram
The Need of Artistic Training [4]
If you work hard and patiently you can surely learn [painting] — but you must realise that you are very young and it takes years before an artist can learn to produce something really perfect.