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“She was very fair and there was an expression of weariness in the lovely liquid dark eyes. Her little finely curved and red hued lips seemed like drooping rosebuds and were sealed as if it were in silence eternal…. she seemed as if she guessed the cruel fate which had been meted out for her by the Rani and Rajah and her other rich but distant relations in whose hands she seemed a helpless toy.”

Amrita Sher-Gil

At the age of 12, her description of a bride at an Indian wedding.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil

“Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me.”

Amrita Sher-Gil

When Amrita returned to India because her experience in a metropolis, after the initial excitement had died down.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil

“I was positively stunned and have straightaway become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools. I had some of the things in reproductions but never dreamt they were so magnificent. With the possible exception of Mahabalipuram I don’t think I have seen anything in Indian sculpture that I liked so much.”

Amrita Sher-Gil

In [Dalmia, Yashodhara, Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life, http://books.google.com/books?id=KmMctE3wAgIC&pg=PT152, 15 January 2013, Penguin Books Limited, 978-81-8475-921-1, 152–]
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil

“I was positively stunned and have straight away become a votary of Mathura art to the exclusion of all the other and later schools.”

Amrita Sher-Gil

At Mathura where she saw Kushan sculpture for the first time and she proclaimed.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil