There is no beginning and no end to an Ambadas painting, no particular point of departure and no particular point of arrival, the canvas invoking the internal flux of the universe outside it and palpitating with a cosmic movement and passage within the frame, the viewer simultaneously everywhere and yet standing in front of the canvas, thrown into a state of vertigo and then restored to one of serenity - placed, as it were, within the very centre of a vortex.
- J. Swaminathan