deepal C

To be reconciled to the inevitable with good grace is wisdom, so let me in a spirit of resignation accept the fact that you must have an undisturbed opportunity to produce your pictures while I nourish a desperate hope in my mind to find some rest somewhere in the closely-knit days which hold me captive - and to play truant to all obligations that are compulsory.  The rich luxury of leisure is not for me while I am in Europe - I am doomed to be unrelentingly good to humanity and remain harnessed to a cause.  The artist in me ever urges me to be naughty and natural - but it requires [a] good deal of courage to be what I truly am.  Then again I do not really know myself and dare not play tricks with my nature.  So the good for nothing artist must have for his bed-fellow the man of a hundred good intentions.

- Tagore in a letter to William Rothenstein