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“Queste piccole composizioni sono l'espressione della mia felicità ed è per questo che forse le amo particolarmente.”

Amrita Sher-Gil

Amrita Sher-Gil: Frasi in inglese

“In "Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic"”

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“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.”

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About her love life
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“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.”

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In 1934 on her new art form
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“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.”

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In a latter 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.
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“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.”

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Statement made when her painting was rejected by the Simla Fine Arts Society in 1935.
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“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.”

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At the age of 12, her description of a bride at an Indian wedding.
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“Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me.”

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When Amrita returned to India because her experience in a metropolis, after the initial excitement had died down.
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“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.”

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Amrita to her contemporary painters.
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“These little compositions are the expression of my happiness and that is why perhaps I am particularly fond of them.”

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On Her paintings from January to May 1938 done at Saraya including Elephants Bathing.
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“Amrita Sher-Gill: Art and Life: A Reader (page xvii)”

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“…was to interpret the life of Indians and particularly the poor Indians, pictorially.”

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Proclamation of her mission when she painted "The Beggars and Woman with Sunflower".
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“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.”

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Her decision after coming to India in 1935.
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“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.”

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In June 1938 Amrita and her husband fled from Fascist dominated Hungary.
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“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.”

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Her surprised reaction on seeing art work in Ellora and Ajanta
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“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.”

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In [Dalmia, Yashodhara, Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life, http://books.google.com/books?id=KmMctE3wAgIC&pg=PT152, 15 January 2013, Penguin Books Limited, 978-81-8475-921-1, 152–]
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“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.”

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In 1933, when she wanted to return to India.
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“I was positively stunned and have straight away become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools.”

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At Mathura where she saw Kushan sculpture for the first time and she proclaimed.
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“Rose water and raw spirit…weird amalgam of the bearded star gazer and the red haired pianist pounding away at her keyboard.”

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Malcolm Muggeridge who had an serious affair with her in The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-1947, page=46

“An Indian with a measure of European blood, she returned to India to shed her acquired skin…. She saw her country with new vision and has left a legacy of pictures simple and grand…as a tribute to the Indian countryside and its people.”

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Maic Casey in [Mitter, Partha, The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-1947, http://books.google.com/books?id=krdWkzVLSbkC&pg=PA236, 2007, Reaktion Books, 978-1-86189-318-5, 45]

“Art in India was never the same after her comet like appearance. There are only a few moments in the history of art which pinpoint a new departure, a new direction. Such a moment in the history of modern Indian art was the appearance in the mid-thirties of Amrita Sher-Gil with whose paintings contemporary paintnig in India took shape and demonstrated the possibility of a contemporary style and expression that were, at the same time, of the soil and in direct continuation of the great national past.”

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Ruby Von Leiden in amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941), 7 December 2013, Learnpunjabi.org http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/AMRITA%20SHER-GIL%20%281913-1941%29.html,

“At stake was not only a serious and viable artistic career as a woman, but the development of a subjectivity that was being defined through the self-portrait. conscious of being both muse and maker, Sher-Gil took on the position of artist and object with a double consciousness of being both.”

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Above two quotes by art historian Rakhee Balaram in the self in making AMRITA SHER-GIL, 7 December 2013, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts. http://knma.in/exhibition/self-making-amrita-sher-gil-0.,

“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

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