Anish Kapoor Quotes

United Kingdom, Sculptor
March 12, 1954

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

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. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

Anish Kapoor
- Up
- Red
Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

Anish Kapoor

Architects have always hoped to find a way to skip that stage between design and finished building.

Anish Kapoor
- Design
I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly.

Anish Kapoor
- Done
- Death
- Simple
It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, he said That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting.

Anish Kapoor
- History
- Interesting
Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, could not be more different from the British perspective.

Anish Kapoor
It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too.

Anish Kapoor
- Done
It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Anish Kapoor
- Moments