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
artist years work-out
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
artist world roles
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
art people concerned
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
art ego ends
I, in the end, make art for myself.
freedom artist numbers
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
matter far-away consideration
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
artist architecture mythology
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
looks world stuff
What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
space sculpture body
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
eye ears instruments
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
moments grows
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
journey thinking artist
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.
circles stories involvement
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
ideas grows
All ideas grow out of other ideas