Anish Kapoor Quotes

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

Art, Artists, Objects

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

Life, Powerful, Rich

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

Work, Deep, Darkness

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

Hope, Art, Long

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, Himself

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

God, Fear, Feeling

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

Try, Boredom, Either

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

Felt, Maybe, Level

All ideas grow out of other ideas.
Anish Kapoor

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

Away, Matter, Far

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

Problem, Artist, Symbolic

I feel there's everything to do yet.
Anish Kapoor

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

Job, Understand, Space

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

Work, Artist, Agenda

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, Seriously, Felt

I've nothing to say.
Anish Kapoor

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

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

Bad, Review, Stride

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

Artist, Content, Role

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

Almost, Logic, Geometric

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

Nothing, Two, Show

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

Life, Work, History

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

Truth, Food, Reality

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

Work, Spiritual, Cannot

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

Art, Though, Concerned

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Artist

Born: 1954

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