I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

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

If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.

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