top of page
"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Work quotes

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
Explore more quotes by Anish Kapoor

"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."

"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."

"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."

"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."

"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author."

"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."

"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."
bottom of page