Anish Kapoor Quotes

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

I like leaving a space hollowed out, where as I change I can inject new meaning in the shell of the songs all of the time. Where anyone who listens can hopefully inhabit them in their own way.

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'

It's why we're actors: to be able to tell the stories that really matter.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

For me, the biggest thing was writing memorable themes for the new characters so that ultimately people would have the same identification with 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' as they do with the Harry Potter films.

The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I don't like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that's preaching to the audience or speaking down to us.

Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no music that accompanies the art, such as great masterworks in a museum, you wind up interpreting what the artist is doing, how the artist made that work and what they're conveying.

I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

Early on, many years ago when we started 'Avatar,' the executive that we were working with said to make the sad scenes sadder, the funny scenes funnier, the scary scenes scarier. That was kind of permission to do what we felt comfortable with.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.