top of page
"There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer."
Work,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Work quotes

"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Work,

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

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Explore more quotes by Anish Kapoor

"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."

"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."

"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go 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."

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

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

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