Anish Kapoor

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

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

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.