Anil Kapoor's Quotes

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.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

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.

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.

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.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

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.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

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.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

I feel there's everything to do yet.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

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.

I've nothing to say.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

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.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

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.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.