Anish Kapoor Quotes
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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.
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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
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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?
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
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It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
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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.
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I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
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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
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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
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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
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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.
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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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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.
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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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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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