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Amrita Sher-Gil

19 quotes

“In "Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amrita Sher-Gill: Art and Life: A Reader (page xvii)”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My art is not a career, it is myself and I know myself best!”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot control my appetiate for color, and I wonder if I ever will.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Towards the end of 1933 I began to be haunted by an intense longing to return to India, feeling in some strange inexplicable way that there lay my destiny as a painter.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1933, when she wanted to return to India.
“Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 fundamentally Indian in spirit.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her decision after coming to India in 1935.
“...was to interpret the life of Indians and particularly the poor Indians, pictorially.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Traditions that were once vital, sincere and splendid and which are now merely empty formulae, [nor to imitate fifth rate western art slavishly] break away from both and produce something vital, connected with the soil, something essentially Indian.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She was very fair and there was an expression of weariness in the lovely liquid dark eyes. Her little finely curved and red hued lips seemed like drooping rosebuds and were sealed as if it were in silence eternal....she seemed as if she guessed the cruel fate which had been meted out for her by the Rani and Rajah and her other rich but distant relations in whose hands she seemed a helpless toy.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am always in love, but unfortunately for the party concerned, I fall out of love or rather fall in love with someone else before any damage can be done.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 have realised that a fresco from Ajanta or a small piece of sculpture in the Musee Guimet is worth more than a whole Renaissance.'”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1934 on her new art form
“I shall in future be obliged to resign myself to exhibiting them (her paintings) 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 representative exhibition of Modern Art, and to which I have been invited to participate in the past, a distinction I may add that few can boast of.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made when her painting was rejected by the Simla Fine Arts Society in 1935.
“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.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Brahmacharis as the most difficult thing she had ever done....don't you think I have learnt something from Indian painting?...I don't know whether it is a passing phase or a durable change in my outlook but I see in a more detached manner, more ironically than I have ever done.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Karl Khandalavala in 1937 after she had done three paintings on south Indian villagers - The Bride's Toilet, The Brahmacharis, and South Indian Villagers going to Market.
“These little compositions are the expression of my happiness and that is why perhaps I am particularly fond of them.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Her paintings from January to May 1938 done at Saraya including Elephants Bathing.
“I was positively stunned and have straight away become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is dreadful to think of Paris in German hands but what preoccupies me still more is what is going to happen to modern French art and the younger artists.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In June 1938 Amrita and her husband fled from Fascist dominated Hungary.
“I was positively stunned and have straightaway become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools. I had some of the things in reproductions but never dreamt they were so magnificent. With the possible exception of Mahabalipuram I don’t think I have seen anything in Indian sculpture that I liked so much.”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source