I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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.

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist