91 Quotes by Anish Kapoor

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

I feel there's everything to do yet.