Quotes By Anish Kapoor

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with 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.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.