“Nature has a million answers. Even as I observe tree trunks, roots, branches, idling in some corner, to be burnt down as wood, it affords an excellent laboratory to the mind. It is exciting, sensuous and intoxicating. If one submits oneself to the form and the raw energy of the tree even when it can no longer bear fruit and leaves, one can see great poetry and lyricism in its intertwining branches and roots. The functional sculptures and paintings are a result of this experiment. The process takes over thereafter, but it is just an ode to nature's beauty.”
“Nature's process of creation, as it exists in its timelessness,in its oneness and peace,has all the answers to man's needs of growth and progress and development. If the human endeavor first absorbs a...”
Manav Gupta
“As I scrape the bottom of the soul for some ingredients the only way I can explain to myself, about what it all is, is to believe that in some past life (if there is one), I belonged to the rainforest...”
Manav Gupta
“Let us stop a while, while doing what we are doing, and begin to change what we can change…”
Manav Gupta
“I want to drive home the message that we have to go beyond Copenhagen, beyond drawing room politics and sensitise ourselves, and try and make a change on an individual level.”
Manav Gupta
“The change needs to be from within us otherwise the generations to come will suffer.”
Manav Gupta