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All ideas grow out of other ideas
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
I, in the end, make art for myself.
It's the role of the artist to pursue content
It's the role of the artist to pursue content.
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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.
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
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.
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.
I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.
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
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury