Raja Ravi Varma quotes

...the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art. (Raja Ravi Varma)
Who knows if these very pictures, now painted for maharajas, will not find their way to the museums one day. View quote
Raja Ravi Varma
The more I saw, the more I admired the Master's genius - his uncanny ability, through the magic of his brush to depict mood, emotion and atmosphere and to encapsulate the whole story in the selected scene. I felt even then that a state of the art folio on his works needed to be brought out. Only, I never imagined that it was I who would eventually be doing it. View quote
Raja Ravi Varma
This painting [By Varma] takes the view of the 18th century politics ...looking at [it] one immediately thinks of the whole ...of the great warrior. So he must be congratulated. View quote
Raja Ravi Varma
Varma adapted Western realism to pioneer a new movement in Indian art. In 1894 he set up a lithographic press in order to mass-produce copies of his paintings as oleographs, enabling ordinary people to afford them. That innovation resulted in the tremendous popularity of his images, which became an integral part of popular Indian culture thereafter. View quote
Raja Ravi Varma