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

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.

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.

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

Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.

When you find a way to serve, the angel in you awakens.

This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.