Anish Kapoor

It's 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. ”

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. ”

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. ”

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. ”

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing. ”

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to. ”

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important. ”

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. ”

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

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. ”