I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

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

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

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

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.