Top 42 Quotes by Anish Kapoor

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

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.

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.

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.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

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.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.