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.

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

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.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

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

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist