Anuradha Bhattacharyya

“Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.”

“Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery.”

“I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.”

“A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.”

“At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history of his mental growth. From the entry into the imaginary order where he acknowledges his ego and then to the symbolic order where he recognizes his place in the society and finally in his de-symbolization or a refusal to obey the Law that is the rules of the world of symbols, a creative genius is born.”

“Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there’s beauty. Like all natural things beauty comes and goes. You have to capture it in your heart. See if you can retain it long enough to give you happiness.”

“Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships”

“If they had given in to passion, throwing caution to the wind,they would have lost everything.”

“Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!”

“Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.”

“I always feel that one should be loved passionately, not as a matter of course.”

“God knows how many times we miss nice things near at hand!”

“In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association. I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.”

“It was love, the real thing, nothing less or different.”

“That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.”

“Each oneFrom one’s little nooseCranes outYells and shoutsGroans aloudAnd grows stoutAnd the noose tightensLeaving no way to creap outTill at the endSwollenSpent outBecomes silent.I am also having my turn among all.”