I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

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

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

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

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