The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. Anish Kapoor More Quotes by Anish Kapoor More Quotes From Anish Kapoor 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-outartistyears 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 currentscontemporaryart It's the role of the artist to pursue content Anish Kapoor pursuerolesartist 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 doelooksworld 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 boredomblessingtrying 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 gamesyearsart 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-thingsimportantthinking 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 sublimeinterestdarkness 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 halftwoyears 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 iconographyspacespiritual If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. Anish Kapoor reviewsstridecritics 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 artistexpressionthinking Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important Anish Kapoor investingimportantlittles My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis Anish Kapoor neurosisstories I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist Anish Kapoor problemartistworld 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-bestartistenough 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 emptinessknowsfeelings 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 accentshandsreality I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. Anish Kapoor proudpowerfullife-is One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist Anish Kapoor mythologyartistbelieve
