Anish Kapoor Quotes

Anish Kapoor — Indian Artist

Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA (Punjabi: ਅਨੀਸ਼ ਕਪੂਰ, Urdu: انیش کاپور‎, Arabic: انيش كابور‎), is a British-Indian sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design... (wikipedia)

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.

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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

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.