It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

I don't die in anything!

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

No evil is without its compensation.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.