“Tagore once said– art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.
Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.”

— Ritwik Ghatak

[Ghatak, Ritwik, Cinema and I, 1987, Ritwik Memorial Trust, 75]

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“Tagore once said– art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.
Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.”