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

“All ideas grow out of other ideas.”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.”

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

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

“I, in the end, make art for myself.”

“I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.”

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

“It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.”

“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.”

“Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.”

“Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.”

“My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.”

“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.”

“Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.”

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

“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”

“The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.”

“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”

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

“We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.”

“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.”

“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.”

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

“You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.”