The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Art has still another aspect and that is symbolism. Symbolism has not come from the human intellect, for it is born of intuition. The finer the soul, the better it is equipped in some way or other to understand symbolical ideas. A free soul always dreams symbolical dreams, and when the soul becomes finer still it can interpret the dream, understanding the meaning of that symbolism. The artist who produces in his art a symbolical idea has learned it from what he has seen in nature and has interpreted it in his art. This is real inspiration. The finer the artist is, the finer the symbols he produces.


 
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