Famous Quotes

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

Anish Kapoor on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Anish Kapoor

• "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."

• "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."

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

• "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."