Quotes By Anish Kapoor

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.

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

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

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

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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.

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

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

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.

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.