I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

Success is a worn down pencil.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.