Quotes from Anish Kapoor

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.

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

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.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

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

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

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

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

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

I, in the end, make art for myself.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

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.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.