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"What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."
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"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person's history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action."

"The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it..."

"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."

"Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing."
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"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."

"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."

"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 of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."

"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."

"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."

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

"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."
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