“With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.”

“If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!”

“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise”

“Your name is being called by sacred things
That are not addressed nor listened to.
Sometimes they blow trumpets.”

“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go.”

“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”

“If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.”

“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.”

“I say it is not your pride that you are a Madrasi, it is not your pride that you a Brahmin, it is not your pride that you belong to South India, it is not your pride that you are a Hindu, that it is your pride that you are an Indian". "But this must transcend even national borders and extend to humanity because if ideas be only for the prosperity of your country, it would end where it began, by being a prophet to your own community and very probably to your own self.”

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”