Indian Art Quotes

“In a moment, at the very center of the swept and cleaned veranda, she had drawn two intersecting triangles, one upward- pointing and the other downward-pointing. In one, god's grace descended from heaven to earth; in the other, the soul ascended, aspiring toward god. Because of Sitamma's faultless eye, both met in perfect harmony.”
― U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ, Bhava

“How Mughal paintings signified cannot be argued out here, but my point is that the work of categorizing must–if Indian paintings are to emerge from the margins of art history–make room for a return to questions about how they mattered to viewers.”
― Molly Emma Aitken, A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting