Anish Kapoor

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

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.

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.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I, in the end, make art for myself.

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

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

I feel there's everything to do yet.