Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.
I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes. . . My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.