Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

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The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

Don't change for me, I'll not change for you.I don't deserve it, you don't deserve it.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I'm the anti-Quentin Tarantino.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Writing time has to be created.

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

I don't have time to be negative.