“Amrita Sher-Gill: Art and Life: A Reader (page xvii)”
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist
“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.”
On Writing (2002)
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