What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

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I feel there's everything to do yet.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian...

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian...

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography...

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography...

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems...

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems...

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

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years,...

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years,...

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do...

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do...

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic...

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic...

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

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

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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

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

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you...

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you...

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself....

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself....

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the...

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the...

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.