Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor
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
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
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
Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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
Anish Kapoor

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
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 I'm 80.

Anish Kapoor
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 ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor
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
Anish Kapoor

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

I've nothing to say.

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor

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