Top 42 Quotes by Anish Kapoor

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

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.

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.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

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.

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

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

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.