Artist Quote by Suhasini Maniratnam

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in…

— Swami Vivekananda

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done…

— Salman Rushdie

In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it was truly…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

“Then there were the people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konarak; warrior caste, Brahmin,…

— Gregory David Roberts

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

— Stella McCartney

Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like…

— Ram Gopal Varma

The Malayalam audience knows me as an art film actress, and I am fine with that because I know that such films come from…

— Nithya Menen

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian…

— Rupi Kaur

“As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the…

— Alexander Frater

The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the…

— Germaine Greer

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is…

— Germaine Greer

“More than a hundred sets of casta paintings are known. Many are beautifully crafted. Some were painted by mixed people themselves. Looking”

— Charles C. Mann