Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
On Art and Artists
She is a painter. She can understand what I am trying to point out. If she wants really to paint how you look like, she will never be able to do that. She is projecting the idea. She has abstracted from the object that is there: "This is probably the way the person is like..." So she is putting the idea or abstraction of what she is looking at onto the canvas and she says, "This is the picture." So she cannot...
If she were a real artist, she will never be able to paint or make a portrait of him, it is impossible. That's the real artist. These are not the artists—not these people who put you on canvas. These are just technicians, I am sorry. So there is no such thing as an artist at all. He is just a technician. He or she has learned the technique of painting. They are just technicians, artisans, like the carpenters, masons, etc.
If she were a real artist, she will never be able to paint or make a portrait of him, it is impossible. That's the real artist. These are not the artists—not these people who put you on canvas. These are just technicians, I am sorry. So there is no such thing as an artist at all. He is just a technician. He or she has learned the technique of painting. They are just technicians, artisans, like the carpenters, masons, etc.
