Indian - Artist | March 12, 1954 -
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
Anish Kapoor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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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.
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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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.
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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.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
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