In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.