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

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

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

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

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

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.