Sayed Haider Raza (1922-2016) Bindu 2008 Lithograph on paper signed lower right and numbered VIII/XXX lower left Éditions La Différence, Paris (stamped on the back) 110 x 54 cm "The essential thing is the inner journey, that's what you have to do. This is our pictorial tradition and, believe me, in this spirit, contemporary Indian painting expresses itself with profound intensity. [...] For me, the sacred is mainly expressed in painting through simplicity and a great economy of means, a state of peace and serenity. [...] The complexity of nature is such that you always come back down to earth, even after flying very high". Raza in. S. H. Raza and Olivier Germain-Thomas, Mandalas, Paris, Albin Michel, 2004, p. 22