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
thinking artist expression
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.
artist important stories
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.
artist agendas
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
believe artist mythology
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
artist world problem
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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
artist roles pursue
It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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.
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.
artist architecture mythology
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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.
art ideas doe
One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
reviews critics stride
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.