Anish Kapoor Quotes

• 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

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

  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

• 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

• We live in a fractured world. I’ve always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

  Anish Kapoor

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

  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

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

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

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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.

  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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• 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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• Re-investing in one’s own little moments of insight is very important.

  Anish Kapoor

• One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

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

  Anish Kapoor

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

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• One does not set out with the idea that I’ve just had a great idea and now I’m going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that’s made like that doesn’t go anywhere.

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• One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one’s life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

  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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Anish Kapoor (42)

Birth:	12th March, 1954
Nationality:	British, Indian
Profession:	Sculptor

About

Sir Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India. He is an Indian sculptor.  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. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Kapoor received a Knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. Anish Kapoor became known in the 1980s for his geometric or biomorphic sculptures made using simple materials such as granite, limestone, marble, pigment, and plaster.

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