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.

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

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

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.

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

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.