I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings. . . And then finally, they leap, they take off. . . they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.
We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned. . . why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.
I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.
Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.
I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.