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

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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

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

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

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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

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.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

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

It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Choose your mistakes carefully.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.