Top 42 Quotes by Anish Kapoor

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.