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

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

I am republicI am maoistI am activistand I am thisand I am thatbut why?Why can't

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.