"I paint because it allows me to stare shamelessly, to be able to flesh out an idea, emotion, or commit to an image a shadow of the world around me. I paint because there is a spillover of energy within that must find form or else it will haunt and twist me. I paint to commit an act of magic and pleasure, for myself, for the love of my audience, and for an abstract notion of my muse's gaze. I paint to validate my Self and to discover surprises within and without. I paint as a penance for my inadequacies. I paint to understand the world around me and to own and disown what I desire or dislike in it. I paint as a political act: to express my power over power larger than myself. I paint to create what it is I want to see, to fill an absence in the world. I paint in conversation with other images, words and music that require, comment, critique or tribute."
(A brilliant justification of art! Asim Butt (1978-2010) a graffiti activist, a painter, a sculptor, a visionary and a believer of Stuckist Art Movement was a creative individual with a sensitive mind and an emotional heart. What could have pushed him to commit suicide at a young age of 32 might remain unknown but he will always be remembered in art circles as a unique artist and a fearless activist who at least took a bold stand to depict all wrong acts that are readily becoming the right acts in our society)