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

Boredom Know Possibilities

All ideas grow out of other ideas. Anish Kapoor

Growing Ideas Other

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

Make Space Spiritual

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. Anish Kapoor

I Am Life Proud

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

Day Fear God

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Anish Kapoor

Art Artists Make

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. Anish Kapoor

Body Sculpture Space

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

Job Sculptor Space

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

Darkness Me

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

Darkness Me Principal

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

Circle for work motivational Story