 Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80. |
| Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. |
| That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. |
| What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. |
| My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. |
| I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. |
| All ideas grow out of other ideas. |
| One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. |
| Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. |
| One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer. |
| I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. |
| One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere. |
| The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately. |
| Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic. |
| One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. |
| Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments. |
| Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important. |
| I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work. |
| If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. |
| I feel there's everything to do yet. |
