In the homeland of the Indian companion. Advantage to a society

you are: In the homeland of the Indian companion

Huge resources of the world should be turned on advantage to a society. And S.Roerich is deeply convinced that art workers do not presume to remain indifferent witnesses of how certain forces try to use these riches of the world against the blessing of the person.

Here a picture ' Ourselves build to ourselves prisons '. It shows, how a huge, faceless and callous city where there are no greens, there is no individuality, attacks the person.

No, the artist at all against modern cities. But it for that in them normal conditions for a life of people that gardens and parks, lawns and parkways that all around pleased an eye of the person there broke were created and ennobled it.

Again and again the artist repeated thought that final destinies of the world depend on the person, from its moral shape, how actively and self-denyingly it realises the advanced moral and social ideals which already became today the direct purpose of a life of the people of socialist commonwealth.

- Probably, therefore, - spoke Svjatoslav Nikolaevich, showing to us numerous etudes, - I with such pleasure paint portrait simple indianok and Indians, people of work, a scene from their life. In each person I always open something new, fine and I am more and more convinced of that. What inexhaustible possibilities are put in pawn in any of us for self-improvement.

Thus my interlocutor warned, that it against naked practicalness, so strenuously sung in the West. Svjatoslav Nikolaevich it do not agree with those who considers, that one scientific and technical progress is capable to provide the decision of all problems of a society if its motive power are not fair public ideals. He is convinced that all svershenija the person should be inspired by noble promptings, are subordinated to high ethical standards to serve the purposes both economic, and social, and spiritual development of a society, and its improvement. And he sees a sign of the times that aspirations of the Soviet society are defined by such high ideals.

Svjatoslav Nikolaevich Roerich continues to work much, all the day long it is strictly painted. The best for it rest - switching from one kind of activity on another. Svjatoslav Nikolaevich aspires to develop and deepen in the creativity a theme of the spiritualised work, efforts of the person, subordinates to creation of the world, free from wars and poverty where all possibilities for blossoming of the person are opened.