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

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

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