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1922–2016 India

Syed Haider Raza Alias (born February 22, 1922 – 23 July 2016) is an Indian artist specialized in Indian vision and Indian ethnograph. He had lived and worked in France since 1950 and returned to India recently.

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Also known as: S.H. Raza

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Installations are usually very mediocre. These new ideas are alright to promote themselves but I think real promotion can be done if they make good paintings or good sculptures.

This exhibition is a sum total of all my experiences and all my research.

India is always in my heart and I put that in my paintings and sometimes in my dairies and letters.

I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.

I tell God that he has been responsible enough. Without him it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks to him I could achieve these heights.

Well, art is reality, art is a muse if it helps us to realise the truth. It is the major guiding element which helps you to realise the truth.

I didn't become a French painter or a European one. I remained an Indian painter through the years. That was always in my heart and I am very glad that I was able to come back here again."

Young painters are amazingly involved in their own research and are coming into their own personal perceptions. There is great hope for the future of art here. We will be the most vital art expression in the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: S. H. Raza (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.