"If I want to paint one nice flower, I have to arrange for so many things. I have to arrange for the colors, I have to arrange for the brush. I must have the requisite knowledge how to paint it. I have to devote some time for learning how to paint, then actually paint. So many things required. But Kṛṣṇa's energies are so perfect that it appears svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca: flowers automatically coming out. That we have to study. And when you concentrate in that study with bhāva, then you can understand Kṛṣṇa, how He is working, how He is the original source of everything."

Paṇḍāl Lecture by Śrīla Prabhupāda, April 10, 1971, Bombay, India

"This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, to appreciate the greatest artist. We are all artist, but when we appreciate the greatest artist, Kṛṣṇa, then our life is successful. Otherwise, whatever we are doing, it is said that we are being defeated unless we come to the point to appreciate the greatest artist who has created all this arrangement."

Śrīla Prabhupāda's Lecture at Art Gallery, April 16, 1972, Auckland, New Zealand

"I am very much encouraged to see how you are all working so carefully in the service of Kṛṣṇa in the matter of painting transcendental pictures of the Lord, His pastimes, His devotees, and illustrating His philosophy. The philosophy should be illustrated, but everything must be done with clear intelligence according to the Paramparā revelation of the Absolute Truth and Kṛṣṇa will give you good understanding for the purpose."

Śrīla Prabhupāda's Letter to Jadurānī, 1 Apr 1971, Bombay