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I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.

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Installations are usually very mediocre. These new ideas are alright to promote themselves but I think real promotion can be done if they make good paintings or good sculptures.

This exhibition is a sum total of all my experiences and all my research.

India is always in my heart and I put that in my paintings and sometimes in my dairies and letters.

I tell God that he has been responsible enough. Without him it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks to him I could achieve these heights.

Well, art is reality, art is a muse if it helps us to realise the truth. It is the major guiding element which helps you to realise the truth.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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