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"Was nützen mir die Farben, wenn ich nicht weiß, was ich malen soll?"
"Prosa kann Abend und Mondlicht malen, aber die Morgendämmerung zu besingen, bedarf es der Dichter."
"Malerei verwandelt den Raum in Zeit, Musik die Zeit in Raum."
"Die Malerei sollte stets nur Erhebendes und Schönes oder doch unbefangene Heiterkeit darstellen wollen und nie Elend."
"Die Kunst wird nie zu Ende sein.[...] Die Malerei bleibt erhalten, weil das Universum und die Natur unendlich sind. Sie sind niemals am Ende. Die Natur ist die Kunst."
"Die Farbe hat mich. Ich brauche nicht nach ihr zu haschen. Sie hat mich für immer. Das ist der glücklichen Stunde Sinn: ich und die Farbe sind eins. Ich bin Maler."
"Das, was man malt, ist dem Maler, wie das Instrument, auf dem der Musiker seine Töne streicht."
"Bezeichnest du die Malerei als stumme Dichtung, so kann der Maler erst recht die Dichtung als blinde Malerei bezeichnen."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.