The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The other tendency is the tendency of exaggeration. In this there are two kinds. One is to give one's own form to the color of nature, or giving one's choice color to the form of nature. Another is a slightly pronounced tendency of exaggeration, which is to improve a form even to the extent of deforming it, so that the artist may make the length of the leaf which originally is a palm the size of an elephant's ear, make round what is oval, make an oval into a round form, make even into uneven, and turn a natural into an odd form. Undoubtedly in doing so the artist, if a really gifted one, will produce what very few artists will be able to do, and surely he will get successful results as a prize for his courageous ventures.


 
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