Top 42 Quotes by Anish Kapoor

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

I feel there's everything to do yet.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

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

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.

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.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

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.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.