Anish Kapoor Quotes Page 2

“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”

“That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.”

“The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.”

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

“The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.”

“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.”

“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.”

“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?”

“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.”