Quotes by Anish Kapoor

About Anish Kapoor:

Sir Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
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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.

Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Anish Kapoor

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

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

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

Anish Kapoor

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Anish Kapoor

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 making almost nothing.

Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor

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

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

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.

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.

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

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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

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

Anish Kapoor

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Anish Kapoor

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 artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

Anish Kapoor

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

Anish Kapoor

Author Bio

  • NameAnish Kapoor
  • DescriptionBritish contemporary artist of Indian birth
  • Born1954
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; India
  • ProfessionSculptor
  • WorksEye In Stone; Cloud Gate
  • AwardsTurner Prize; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Padma Bhushan; Praemium Imperiale