Art Quote by Sarnath Banerjee

Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.

— Sarnath Banerjee

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge.…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do - I try to figure out the underlying principles. I'm…

— Sarnath Banerjee

People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people…

— Sarnath Banerjee

The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past…

— Sarnath Banerjee

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

— Sarnath Banerjee

I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart…

— Sarnath Banerjee