Abstract

The artist or the poet possesses an interior light which transforms objects to make a new world of them—sensitive, organized, a living world which is in itself an infallible sign of the Divinity, a reflection of Divinity. For me now, silence and isolation are useful. Only superficial painters need fear them. If education has for its object the integral development or growth of the human self, then it should cultivate not only the faculties of the body and the mind but also the faculty of the spirit. This means that education must be imbued with the aesthetic in its method and aim; it alone, Henri Matisse teaches us, enables us to make contact with divinity. For Matisse, the first step in this..