God is Ganalola and Ganapriya (one who is attracted by singing). Poems and prayers do not attract God as much as songs sung with devotion do. All of you have listened to the melodious singing of M. S. Subbulakshmi. She has earned the title Gana Kokila. I have also seen her play the role of Meera, when she was very young. Meera prayed to Krishna, ‘O Lord, I dived deep into the ocean of Samsara and caught hold the pearl of your divine name. Please see that it does not slip away from my hands.’ Uday Shankar was such a great dancer that one could hardly see his two feet on the ground while dancing. His wife, daughter-in-law and other disciples have come here and will be staging a dance programme tomorrow. These fine arts cannot be mastered by practice alone. Divine grace is very essential. Negative and positive both are essential for the current to flow. Likewise, human effort and Divine grace should come together to achieve success. (SSS Vol.32 Part II, pp. 144-145)

I am concerned with the spiritual arts, the finest arts, rather than the fine arts. (SSS Vol.3, p. 114)

Sports and the fine arts have become commercial arts and are not practised for the sake of health or enjoyment. ‘Art’ has come from ‘heart,’ but today the heart has been divorced from the arts. The spiritual basis of the latter has been ignored. (SSS Vol.21, p. 15)