Anish Kapoor

I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why…

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is…

— Anish Kapoor

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an…

— Anish Kapoor

I've nothing to say.

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead…

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions.…

— Anish Kapoor

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough…

— Anish Kapoor

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when…

— Anish Kapoor

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and…

— Anish Kapoor

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and…

— Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable.…

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper…

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Anish Kapoor

All ideas grow out of other ideas

— Anish Kapoor

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the…

— Anish Kapoor

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that…

— Anish Kapoor

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

— Anish Kapoor