Heretic!

"I am certain the younger generation will get fed up of the fundamentalist,
conservative mood in the country and change things.
I didn’t want to leave my home. At the same time, it’s not even as if I want the conservative element to be pushed out of society.
We are all part of a large family and when a child breaks something at home, you don’t throw him out, you try and explain things to him.
Those opposed to my art just do not understand it. Or have never seen it.

I do not love art less, I love humanity more. India is a completely unique country. Liberal. Diverse.
There is nothing like it in the world. This mood in the country is just a historical process.
For me, India means a celebration of life. You cannot find that same quality anywhere in the world."

M F Hussain RIP
[17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011]

Water color on paper.