Anish Kapoor Quotes

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

One Must Not Believe Any Of Those Mythologies About Oneself As An Artist

I Am Indian, And I'm Proud Of It. Indian Life Is Mythologically Rich And Powerful.

My Work Is Not About My Life History. It's Not About The Story Of My Neurosis

I'm Not An Artist Who Has An Agenda That's Set By The Work

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.

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.

It Is Important That Artists Are Not Outside The Equation, We Don't Stand On The Sidelines. Artists Are Part Of The Story Of A Response, We Cannot Stand Aside And Let Others Make The Response.

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

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.

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

Is It My Role As An Artist To Say Something, To Express, To Be Expressive? I Think It's My Role As An Artist To Bring To Expression, It's Not My Role To Be Expressive.