Clergyman's

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

In ""Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic
- Amrita Sher-Gil

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

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

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

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

Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me.
- Amrita Sher-Gil

I shall in future be obliged to resign myself to exhibiting them 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

Traditions that were once vital, sincere and splendid and which are now merely empty formulae, break away from both and produce something vital, connected with the soil, something essentially Indian.
- Amrita Sher-Gil

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