Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
There’s something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
We live in a fractured world. I’ve always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. – Anish Kapoor
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already. – Anish Kapoor
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. – Anish Kapoor
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. – Anish Kapoor
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. – 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. – Anish Kapoor
