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

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

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.

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

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

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury