Anish Kapoor Quotes

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Anish Kapoor

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 12, 1954

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

Anish Kapoor

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

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

Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

Anish Kapoor

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Anish Kapoor

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

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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.

Anish Kapoor

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

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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

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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.

Anish Kapoor

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

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I've nothing to say.

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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.

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

Anish Kapoor