M. F. Husain

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

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

India is my motherland.

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

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

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.

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

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

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

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 kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

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

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