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.

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

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

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

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

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

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.