Creativity Quote by Anish Kapoor

Kapoor isn’t romanticizing gloom; he’s laying down an ethics of authenticity that’s also a flex. “Deep resonance” becomes a kind of litmus test: art that lands isn’t stitched together from borrowed trauma or fashionable pessimism, but drawn from a darkness that’s already “resident” - internal, lived, metabolized. The phrasing matters. “Generate” hints at craft and control, as if darkness is a material he can produce on demand. Then “resident in me already” yanks that control back toward confession: the source isn’t technique alone, it’s temperament, history, psyche.

The subtext is a rejection of mere aesthetic edginess. Kapoor’s work - the void-like Vantablack surfaces, the gleaming concavities that swallow viewers, the monumental objects that flirt with the sublime and the abject - often stages absence as presence. This line explains why those voids don’t read as a gimmick. He’s suggesting the viewer senses when darkness is procedural (a look) versus when it’s existential (a pressure). Resonance, here, isn’t popularity; it’s vibration - the artwork as a tuning fork that only hums if the artist has the frequency in their body.

There’s also a quieter claim about responsibility. If your darkness isn’t yours, you’re appropriating someone else’s. Kapoor implies that the most convincing confrontation with emptiness, fear, or violence requires an artist willing to admit complicity: the abyss isn’t “out there.” It’s already furnished inside.