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.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

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

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

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

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

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work