Anish Kapoor
10 quotes
Biography
"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."
"Discover how Kapoor’s continual experimentation with structure and medium has led him to work with a wide variety of materials from clay, fibreglass and paint pigment, to steel and wax, creating beautiful, strange and intriguing works that counter conventional ideas of art."
"He came up with this very simple idea which was recognising that the location which we identified, which is an axial view straight up the main promenade of the museum at its highest point, would be the place where a simple hour glass form would offer the opportunity to invert the Jerusalem sky and built landscape. And that’s what he created – and it’s a superb thing."
"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."
"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."
"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."
"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."
"Sculpture occupies the same space as your body."
"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."
"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."