The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The mind of the artist must be free from the worries and anxieties of life. No thought of ugliness and badness of anybody's nature, nor bitterness or spite must take hold of the mind of the artist. For the mind must be perfectly free for receiving beauty in order to produce beauty. The artist must reject all badness of his nature. It is the sweetness of his nature which will express itself in the beauty of his art. The artist must not be irritable by nature, must not be impatient, and must not have bitterness against anybody, for these are the things in life which hinder beauty. The artist must love beauty of manner and express it in his own actions, and must refrain from all that is lacking beauty in thought, feeling, word, and deed. The purer the heart of the artist, the greater his art, the greater his love in his art, the more beauty he will produce.


 
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