Anish Kapoor Quotes

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

At my first exhibits, people were saying that's just a light on the wall.

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.