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 More Quotes by Anish Kapoor More Quotes From Anish Kapoor A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already Anish Kapoor residents kind darkness The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it. Anish Kapoor being-an-artist tomorrow artist The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. Anish Kapoor involvement circles stories Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. Anish Kapoor red body way 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. Anish Kapoor philosophical dumb thinking All ideas grow out of other ideas Anish Kapoor grows ideas There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. Anish Kapoor viewers sculpture circles I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that? Anish Kapoor intelligent people art Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Anish Kapoor architecture creative art 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 space jobs thinking We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. Anish Kapoor roles artist world One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer Anish Kapoor concerned people art Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. Anish Kapoor mathematical-logic form kind Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. Anish Kapoor sculpture space body Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments Anish Kapoor grows moments That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. Anish Kapoor freedom artist numbers Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. Anish Kapoor consideration far-away matter 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. Anish Kapoor artist journey thinking I, in the end, make art for myself. Anish Kapoor ego ends art The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately Anish Kapoor instruments eye ears
