Anish Kapoor Quotes

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

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

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

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

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

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 am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake