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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.'

— Amrita Sher-Gil

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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.

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

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.

I was positively stunned and have straight away become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools.

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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