Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
