Amrita Sher-Gil

"The life of Indians, particularly the poor, pictorially....with a new technique, my own technique...and this technique though not technically Indian, in the traditional sense of the word, will yet be …"

"These little compositions are the expression of my happiness and that is why perhaps I am particularly fond of them."

"In "Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic"

"I shall in future be obliged to resign myself to exhibiting them merely at the Grand Salon, Paris, of which I happen to be an Associate and the Salon de Tuileries known all over the world as the repre…"

"She melded the Western and Indian idioms and did not, like many other artists of her time, attempt to find an authentic ‘Indian’ mode or weave together a nationalist agenda."

"Modern art has led me to the comprehension and appreciation of Indian painting and sculpture. It seems paradoxical but I know for certain that had we not come away to Europe, I should perhaps never ha…"

"Revelations. Ellora magnificent. Ajanta curiously subtle and fascinating-I have for the first time since my return to India learnt something from somebody else's work."

"that she was really a virgin because she'd never experienced the spiritual equivalent of copulation: she had many lovers but they'd left no scar. I'll leave a scar."