Quotes By 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.

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

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.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.