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

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

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

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

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

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