Anish Kapoor Quotes

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.