The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Look for stories in the paintings. Identify objects. For instance, with a portrait, try to figure out if the person is wealthy, who they are and what they did by the clues in the paintings.

Don’t relax with any portrait written about you

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then - I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn't know where we will get.