Quotes By Anish Kapoor

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

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.

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.

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.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

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

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.