One Word Quotes

“Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“I had to revise all my feelings once again. I pulled out the dregs of affection from the glass of misunderstanding to rebuild my faith. I had to reinvent the cause for love, as it were. It was something I had to draw inside me, a real portrait of her, not just the inspiration but the girl as a whole, with all her shortcomings to be able to love her again.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“We are on a stroll, hand in hand, in a garden, in the moonlight and the sole purpose of such a venture is to come together in love.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“I love you. I know what a body suffers, but I cannot forget my lessons.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Beauty is discernible in your fleeting moments. When you talk; in a smile or a blink of your eye; beauty is discernible. I can feel it in the skin of your nape when I kiss it. You must know how to preserve it for a long time; I do not know how long that would be possible. Many things may change. Many new things may meet your eyes, allure you; you may be corrupted by them. Then? What will you do then? All that has made you beautiful will be gone…”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association.
I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Literature has become merely a tool for culture studies.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“That day I behaved like a good artist, one whose job is to build rather than break.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Many a times, doctors, the worshipers of science, are helpless. They know a few technical things and perform their duty diligently. But they wait for nature to take its course as well.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than the ordinary, in our lives. We feel liberated, enriched, superior. But we lose a part of nature, the ordinary beautiful essential nature in doing so.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“I always believed that there is meaning only in what emanated from the very pages we read.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“No amount of grooming from the professors can communicate knowledge.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“An incomplete fulfillment of a sweet dream can slowly turn it caustic.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there’s beauty. Like all natural things beauty comes and goes. You have to capture it in your heart. See if you can retain it long enough to give you happiness.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“You need to characterize beauty by association.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“That day, they learned that when there are two people, half the times they agreed and half the times they disagreed on every issue. What they were unwilling to accept is that they could get along very well together even if they disagreed half of the times.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Real poetry is about life as it is lived by instinct, not by philosophy.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Love was a desire to cling to something difficult to get hold of in day-to-day life. It needed more attention and dedication, not always pleasurable, she concluded. Sensuality was by far easy, like food.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word

“Had there been no sun, life would have found some other means of illuminating the world. It is odd that we give the sun so much importance.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word