Anish Kapoor

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#colour #felt #grew #i #indian

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#colour #course #inside #interior #our

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#occupies #same #sculpture #space #your

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #freedom #himself #huge #huge number

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#eye #gets #immediately #instrument #much

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#complete #counterpoint #involvement #itself #meaning

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

— Anish Kapoor

#completed #imminent #only #something #viewer

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #attempt #fractured #i #live

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#carry #darkness #interests #me #principal