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.

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

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

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

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