Anish Kapoor Quotes

• 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

• My work is not about my life history. It’s not about the story of my neurosis.

  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

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

  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

• It’s the role of the artist to pursue content.

  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

• I’ve nothing to say.

  Anish Kapoor

• 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.

  Anish Kapoor

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

  Anish Kapoor

• I, in the end, make art for myself.

  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

• 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

• I feel there’s everything to do yet.

  Anish Kapoor

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

  Anish Kapoor

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

  Anish Kapoor

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

  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

• All ideas grow out of other ideas.

  Anish Kapoor

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.

Related Authors

• Antoine Bourdelle
• Alberto Giacometti
• Brian Andreas
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser
• Jean Dubuffet
• Matthew Barney
• Anish Kapoor
• Dan Flavin
• Christian Boltanski
• Georges Braque

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 24th November

Births

• 1934 - Martin Charnin
• 1957 - Denise Crosby
• 1925 - William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 1957 - Denise Crosby
• 1935 - Ron Dellums

Deaths

• 1807 - Joseph Brant
• 1991 - Paul Charles Caravello
• 2004 - Warren Spahn
• 1957 - Diego Rivera
• 1990 - Fred Shero