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.

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

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

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

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

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