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The Art of Life
UC Jain, Department of Humanities, Birla College of Engineering, Pilani (Rajasthan)
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"The building of man's true world--the living world of Truth and Beauty18 the function of art" Art implies synthesis, harmony or integration Art 18 a means of union among men, joining them together is the same feelings, and mdispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing or individuals and of humanity. One who comprehends the truth of everything, and possesses the ability to convert the ugliness into beauty and lives every moment of life for the good of mankind can be called an artist of life An artist of life is able to synthesise the various forces of life To him poverty and prosperity, defeats and victories, sorrows and joys, are equally joyful and significant in the drama of life To him nothing is detrimental, nobody is despicable. He has sterling faith in the dictum that everything in this world has some unique quality in it and every event that happens is for the sake of man's welfare,' His every activity is artistic He acts independently and lives gloriously and beautifully
An artist of life 18 a calm spectator of the drama of life, enjoying everything unattached Nothing enslaves him, nothing arrests him, nothing uses him, nothing masters him in the Mansarover of life he is like a lotus which is always above the surface of water in spite of having its root in deep water. An artist of life is always creative He lives for creation He paves his own path of life. It is he who semoulds saciety to a better plan It is he who propounds new philosophies and ideologies and changes the course of history of mankind It is he who produces
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