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.

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 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.

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

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One!

Psychology is the science of mental life

The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Money is a great dignifier.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.