Anish Kapoor

Visual Arts United Kingdom 1954 100 quotes

Sculptor of reflective voids and monumental colors.

Quotes by Anish Kapoor

I am interested in the void, the moment when something disappears, or is about to disappear, or has just disappeared.

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Art is not about making things, it's about making things happen.

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The object is not the work. The object is the trigger for the work.

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Colour is a kind of light, and light is a kind of space.

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I'm interested in the idea of the object as a place of transformation.

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The work has to have a certain kind of presence, a certain kind of weight, a certain kind of silence.

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I'm trying to make objects that are not objects, that are experiences.

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The space between things is as important as the things themselves.

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Art is about the unsaid, the unseen, the unthought.

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I'm interested in the idea of the sublime, the overwhelming, the terrifying.

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The body is a site of memory, a site of experience.

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I'm interested in the idea of the 'non-object', something that is there but not there.

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The work is a kind of mirror, reflecting something back to the viewer.

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I'm interested in the idea of the sacred, the spiritual, the transcendent.

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Art is a way of questioning the world, of questioning ourselves.

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The material has its own intelligence, its own memory.

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I'm interested in the idea of the 'dark matter' of art, the things that are unseen but present.

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The work should have a sense of wonder, a sense of awe.

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I'm interested in the idea of the 'un-making' of things, the process of dissolution.

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Art is a way of touching the intangible.

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