Contemporaries about Nicholas Roerich
“I am delighted to receive your letter and to know that your cultural colony in Nagar, Kulu, is thriving as it should. I have keenly followed your most remarkable achievements in the realm of Arts and also your great humanitarian work for the welfare of the nations of which your Peace Pact idea with a special Banner for protection of cultural treasure is a singularly effective symbol. I am very glad indeed that this Pact has been accepted at the League of Nations and I feel sure that it will have far-reaching effects on the cultural harmony of nations.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Letter to Nicholas Roerich, 1931
“My heartiest thanks for the magnificent work which you sent to me. I admire those creations so much that I can say without exaggeration that never have landscapes made such a great impression on me.”
Albert Einstein
Letter to Roerich Museum, 1931
“In this little book Professor Nicholas Roerich writes in eloquent terms about the saving power of beauty. The present condition of the world is where our cultural life is exploited by mechanical pursuits… When it is said that beauty will save us it means that true beauty is the expression of the highest spirituality and that our lives should be lifted from a mechanical round of mere routine. I do hope that powerful book by a great seer will have the effect of rousing us to a consciousness of the vulgarity which has afflicted us and of helping us to escape from it.”
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Foreword to “Joy of Art”, 1930
“Since 1890, Nicholas Roerich through his writings, through his lectures, research, paintings and through the many fields into which his broad personality has led him, has forceably expounded the teaching of international brotherhood… As an artist, one of the greatest that history has produced, his paintings have illustrated the great volume of beauty and spiritual light symbolized by his teaching… The works of Roerich have, for the last thirty years, been one of the great summons to the world for love among men.”
Committee of Presentation to Nobel Peace Prize Commission, 1929
