Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by M. F. Husain

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian artist M. F. Husain.
Last updated on April 19, 2025.
M. F. Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. In September 2020, his painting titled “Voices”, auctioned for a record $2.5 million.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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. — © M. F. Husain
I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
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'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
India is my motherland.
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.
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