Anish Kapoor Artist Quotations

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

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

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

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

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

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

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

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

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.