Anish Kapoor - Artist Quotes

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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor

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. I've got nothing particular to say, I don't have any message to give anyone. But it is my role to bring to expression, let's say, to define means that allow phenomenological and other perceptions, which one might use, one might work with, and then move towards a poetic existence.

Anish Kapoor

I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly.

Anish Kapoor

Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, [could] not be more different from the British perspective.

Anish Kapoor

Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
- India-born artist sculpts landmark symbol for museum.

Anish Kapoor