Anish Kapoor quotes

Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor renowned for his large-scale, thought-provoking installations. His works often explore themes of perception, space, and material transformation. He has received international acclaim and numerous prestigious awards for his innovative contributions to contemporary art. Here are 77 of his quotes:

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. (Anish Kapoor)
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The idea is that the object has a language unto itself. View quote
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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 the sublime - terror. View quote
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This is a terror of a space, probably much more difficult than the Turbine Hall. It's three times the size, huge horizontally and vertically and above all the light is a killer. It's almost brighter than it is outside. View quote
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It is more than a month that he's been completely disappeared. It is a true tragedy. Accuse him of something. Give him a lawyer. Let him defend himself ... (Anish Kapoor)
I wake up early, does some meditation, take my children to school, and then go to the studio to begin my day's work. The food for his soul is typically India, but with lots of salad on the side. View quote
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In Germany, it seems that the intellectual and aesthetic life are to be celebrated and are seen as part of a real and good education, whereas in Britain, traditionally – certainly since the Enlightenment – we've been afraid of anything intellectual, aesthetic, visual. View quote
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In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy. View quote
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. View quote
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I, in the end, make art for myself. View quote
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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. View quote
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. View quote
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. View quote
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. View quote
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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. (Anish Kapoor)
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. View quote
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? View quote
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor - Image
Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: British Artist
Born: March 12, 1954
Quotes count: 77
Wikipedia: Anish Kapoor

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