I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.