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.

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

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

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

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.