Complex sentence: His closest friends in the art world, V. S. Gaitonde and S. B. Palsikar, shared this philosophy that their artistic integrity must never be compromised.
Split into simpler sentences: His closest friends in the art world, V. S. Gaitonde and S. B. Palsikar, shared this philosophy. Dizi and Gaitonde both lived by the belief that their artistic integrity must never be compromised.