All Anish Kapoor Quotes
- There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. Circle
- 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… Anywhere
- 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. Accent
- Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Architecture
- It's the role of the artist to pursue content Artist
- One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? Cannot Set
- Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important Important
- 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… Acceptable
- 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 Always Felt
- I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist Artist
- 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 Around Making
- Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments Eureka
- One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer Art
- The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately Ear
- 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 Form
- 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… Day
- 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… Akin
- 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… Almost Nothing
- A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already Darkness
- Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form Almost Mathematical