Art

“Only the Institute stood like a beacon in its attempt to create an atmosphere where creativity could hope to flourish.”

“Poetry is a never-ending task.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life.”

“The music is never fixed. A raga is almost like a melodic being. You have to breathe life into it, and every rendition, every performance, may be different.”

“The emotions of the poem determine the form.”

“I feel like I’m in such a pivotal stage, not only as an artist but as a woman. Every day I’m on a new page.”

“& the light, the glorious light!”

“I knew that music was my language, that music would take me to see the world, would take me to other lands.”

“I make cinema for people.”

“Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.”

“Comedy is all about timing.”

“Who knows if these very pictures, now painted for maharajas, will not find their way to the museums one day.”

“The poem conventionally brings its own music.”

“My works have always sought to move between the real and the imaginary.”

“I’ve always been a priest, just like my father and grandfather, but now I’m more an artist than a priest. When people ask me now what I am, I say that I am an artist.”

“শিল্পের অধিকার নিজেকে অর্জন করতে হয়।”

“Everything I write is either something I’ve lived or something I’ve seen closely.”

“Every decision is, in a certain way, a choreographic one.”