Anish Kapoor famous quotes

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
-- Anish Kapoor

#Darkness #Kind #Residents

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Body #Red #Way

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Architecture #Mythology

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #People #Concerned

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Years #Games

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Circles #Stories #Involvement

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Currents #Contemporary

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
-- Anish Kapoor

#Believe #Artist #Mythology

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Agendas

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
-- Anish Kapoor

#Logic #Kind #Form

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
-- Anish Kapoor

#Stories #Neurosis

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Luxury #Doe #Aesthetic

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
-- Anish Kapoor

#Years #Two #Lines

All ideas grow out of other ideas
-- Anish Kapoor

#Ideas #Grows

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
-- Anish Kapoor

#Talking #Skins #Sculpture

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Freedom #Artist #Numbers

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Levels #Red #Grew Up

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Thinking #Expression

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Ideas #Doe

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Years #Two #Half

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Darkness #Sublime #Interest

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Powerful #Proud #Life Is

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Space #Sculpture #Body

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Matter #Far Away #Consideration

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Circles #Sculpture

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Blessing #Boredom #Trying

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.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Reality #Hands #Accents

It's the role of the artist to pursue content
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Roles #Pursue

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

#Spiritual #Space #Iconography

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
-- Anish Kapoor

#Important #Investing #Littles

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Years #Work Out

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Feelings #Emptiness

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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Jobs #Thinking #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
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Vocation #Facade

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #World #Problem

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
-- Anish Kapoor

#Eye #Ears #Instruments

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
-- Anish Kapoor

#Moments #Grows

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

#Artist #Roles #World

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Reviews #Critics #Stride

I, in the end, make art for myself.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Ego #Ends

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.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Doe #Looks #World