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

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

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

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

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.

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.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis