Anish Kapoor Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I've nothing to say.

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.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

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.

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.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

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

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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