Anish Kapoor
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewerCollection: Art
If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.Collection: Philosophical
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facadeCollection: Artist
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.Collection: Thinking
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artistCollection: Artist
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very importantCollection: Important
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 80Collection: Art
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 nothingCollection: Years
I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.Collection: Artist
It's the role of the artist to pursue contentCollection: Artist
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 goingCollection: Feelings
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 exoticCollection: Artist
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artistCollection: Believe
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Artist
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 toCollection: Years
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the workCollection: Artist
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosisCollection: Stories
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 luxuryCollection: Luxury