Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.