Anish Kapoor Quotes

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I think it's much better to get involved with an artist instead of riding up and down the works you like and disregard the works you don't like.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.