One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist Anish Kapoor More Quotes by Anish Kapoor More Quotes From Anish Kapoor The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately Anish Kapoor instruments eye ears 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 Anish Kapoor work-out artist years One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. Anish Kapoor currents contemporary art It's the role of the artist to pursue content Anish Kapoor pursue roles artist What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. Anish Kapoor doe looks world It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. Anish Kapoor boredom blessing trying 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 80 Anish Kapoor games years art The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on. Anish Kapoor important-things important thinking 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 Anish Kapoor sublime interest darkness 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 Anish Kapoor half two years One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? Anish Kapoor iconography space spiritual If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. Anish Kapoor reviews stride critics 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. Anish Kapoor artist expression thinking Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important Anish Kapoor investing important littles My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis Anish Kapoor neurosis stories I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist Anish Kapoor problem artist world 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. Anish Kapoor being-the-best artist enough 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 going Anish Kapoor emptiness knows feelings 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. Anish Kapoor accents hands reality I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. Anish Kapoor proud powerful life-is
