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"After some time, I felt that this was not enough for me."
"I had a desire to tell not about what I see at a given scene and moment, but about what worries me at this moment in my life."
"I said that I turned my camera from the outside world to the inside world and these words still seem to reflect most accurately."
"I stopped capturing events and began to capture my thoughts and feelings."
"I am mainly an autodidact and have not received a systematic education in the field of photography."
"I took various courses in photography, post-processing, art history, drawing and composition."
"I have always been attracted to images where I saw some kind of secret, strangeness or hidden drama."
"When it was cold and foggy, I liked to watch a beckoning light from the windows of strangers’ houses."
"I also liked to watch how, under the street lighting, people’s faces could take a strange and sometimes even sinister expressions."
"I found myself thinking that I would like to transfer the people I meet on the streets to another time or space."
"I think that is what led me to what I am doing today."
"I think, that such things as classification and definition of style."
"Is probably the work of an art critic."
"I just express my thoughts and feelings using a personal visual language that closest to me, without thinking of which style to attribute it to."
"I started from classic photography during my travels around the world."
"In my early photographs I tried to seize the moments and documenting the surrounding world."
"I’m creating my own world of subjective reality with my camera and computer."
"My artworks are far from classic photography and remind paintings of Renaissance period and at the same time neo-surrealism."
"Truthful fiction is the basis of my creative style."
"My artworks don’t reflect the reality as we know it, yet convey a deep and true message."
"I believe, a fictional work may carry sometimes more truth than documentary work."
"As best said in the famous phrase "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures"."
"I use allegories as a way to express my understanding of the modern world."
"I talk about what's really important to me today."
"African entrepreneurs have the power to create valuable businesses using technology that compete on a global scale while massively changing the lives of Africans."
"I made it a mission to bridge that gap between access to funding in Africa and the rest of the world."
"I have always had 100 ideas on how to impact Africa, but I always knew there was no way I would ever build all those companies myself."
"I genuinely believe that the continent’s future lies in the hands of entrepreneurs."
"Founders realize after launching their company, it’s not easy. You have to build a product that has never been built before, find customers, attract the right team members (with no money), and even convince crazy investors like me to invest."
"Nothing good in life comes easy; if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. So, just hang in there and keep showing up; eventually, things will change.”"
"If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words."
"It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament."
"Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest."
"Let us recognise the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment."
"Give me the boon of Love! I ask no more for Fame; Far better one unpurchased heart Than Glory's proudest name. Why wake a fever in the blood, Or damp the spirit now, To gain a wreath whose leaves shall wave Above a withered brow?"
"Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters."
"There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success."
"There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an undefinable and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. It may be that this feeling springs from a sense of unattained good, of a perfection of being quite at variance with the present, which the beautiful never fails to suggest."
"There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess."
"For Truth makes holy Love's illusive dreams, And their best promise constantly redeems."
"There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars."
"A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created."
"Our times might not inaptly be designated as the age of traveling. Its records form no insignificant branch of the literature of the day."
"Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief."
"A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement."
"Tact is an essential principle of conversation; hence, the eastern metaphor which likens a word spoken in season, to "apples of gold in pictures of silver." The time and the society must regulate the subject."
"To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart."
"I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence."
"There they breathe a congenial atmosphere. Often subsisting upon the merest pittance, indulging in every vagary of costume, they wander over the land and yield themselves freely to the spirit of adventure and the luxury of art."
"One reason why the most famous portraits of the old masters, ... are so life-like, and inspire so deep a sense of their authenticity, is doubtless that the originals were objects of affection, and familiar by constant association and sympathy, to the minds of the artists."
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.