The sign of beauty and action will open all gates. And this formula, which now belongs to the museum and stage must enter into everyday life. And when we proclaim: labor, beauty and action, we know verily that we pronounce the formula of the international language. Even the ‘earthly’ people already understand the vital importance of a beauty that is alive. The values of great art and knowledge are victoriously traversing all storms of earthly commotions. Amidst ruins of valueless banknotes, mankind has found the real value of the world’s significance. Before our eyes the reassessment of values is being witnessed. The time for the construction of future culture is at hand. Humanity already realizes that all occurrences are not accidental. Humanity is facing the coming events of cosmic greatness. We should have not only museums, theaters, universities, public libraries, railway stations and hospitals, but even prisons decorated and beautified. Bring art to the people-where it belongs. At first this feeling will be unconscious, but after all it will purify human consciousness, and how many young hearts are searching for something real and beautiful! So give it to them. The gates of the ‘sacred source’ must be wide open for everybody, and the light of art will influence numerous hearts with a new love. Art is the manifestation of the coming synthesis art is for all. Art has its many branches, yet all are one. I am sure the book will receive the recognition which is its due.Īrt will unify all humanity. In this he has indeed spoken for all Artists. I am happy to find that in the following pages my friend Nicholas Roerich has voiced what fundamentally every sensitive mind feels about the values of Art including what is perhaps the greatest of all Arts-the Art of Living. That the Artist’s vision even when expressed in rhetoric can be quite as sincere as when it finds expression through line and color and form is amply evidenced by what is set forth in this volume of essays. A call to Beauty implies in its essentials an appreciation of the Vision which the Artist would fain share with the world at large. The brush has a wider appeal no doubt, but the pen has a distinct function of its own and in the hands of Nicholas Roerich it has for long exerted an influence which is at once elevating and instructive. His pen too has carved out a niche for itself in the world of letters. Nicholas Roerich has a place all his own in the world of Art.
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