A biography for Anish Kapoorhasn’t been written yet.
“זו חייבת להיות עבודה שיש לה את היושר הפנימי שלה, שאנשים מזהים אותו ויכולים להתחבר אליו.”
“תמיד התעניינתי בצורה האנטי־פאלית – ההפך ממה שהוא כמובן פאלי.”
“חובתו של האמן למצוא משמעות פואטית בדברים.”
“אני מעוניין בפיסול שמתמרן את הצופה לקשר ספציפי עם המרחב והזמן כאחד.”
“What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.”
“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 must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.”
“I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.”
“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.”
“Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.”
“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.”
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”
“I feel there's everything to do yet.”
“My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.”
“Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.”
“Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.”
“The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.”
“Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.”
“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.”
“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.”