ANISH KAPOOR (B. 1954)

“This is an idea of art-making: the physical process being related to some internal process. This notion of the material that one’s working with–stone–and, color, whatever else, coming to be a home for one’s psychological material, one’s psychological matter. In the end, what one’s working with is oneself. Every piece of sculpture, every drawing, every painting is a kind of chemistry. It’s like an alchemy. What the alchemists did was to allow the various substances they were playing with to be the darkness of death, the brightness of the sun, and all these were, in the final analysis, the forces of the interior.”
—Anish Kapoor