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

All ideas grow out of other ideas

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

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

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

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.