- Akbar Padamsee: I didn't make copies, it was a reversal film. If it was negative, then I could have made. What is the use of holding on now? If I hold it, I'll just torture myself. Say, for the first twenty... twenty years are the determining years. After that things become... sort of a... they all belong to your memory. You know, it's like a dream you know It's like a... I'm happy that at least this much... is shaping up. We can... we can easily make it.
- Akbar Padamsee: When I started it, I had no idea of it as a totality. I said, why am I making this film? Let... Let me make very good drawings with... only with lines. Then I said, why am I making these drawings? It went... process you know. So, the idea was not wholesale. It came slowly. I first found... found the points. 259 was the code.
- Akbar Padamsee: Everybody is saluting An... André Breton. And said that.. you are setting a wrong precedent. This painter from Bombay, is... only twenty. He said, I don't care. Do you know he's from India? Do you know the heritage of India? He's not twenty, he's twenty thousand years old. Akbar Padamsee, of Bombay noted for the introspective mood of his somber landscapes introduces the basic elements of his own works. The young painter must be very ancient. That is, he must not have any age. He must be thousands and thousands of years old. He must have experience, of time. In some way, I feel that it's a dialogue with myself.