One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
Anish KapoorI don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.
Anish KapoorContent arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
Anish KapoorWe live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Anish KapoorIf sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.
Anish Kapoor