Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA,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...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 March 1954
CountryIndia
believe artist mythology
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
reality hands accents
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
artist world problem
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
darkness sublime interest
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
years two half
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
important littles investing
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
circles sculpture viewers
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
artist vocation facade
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
powerful proud life-is
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
art currents contemporary
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
artist roles pursue
It's the role of the artist to pursue content
art years games
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
mathematical-logic kind form
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
blessing boredom trying
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.