Creativity Quote by Anish Kapoor

"I've nothing to say" is the kind of line that sounds like refusal until you remember who’s saying it: Anish Kapoor, an artist whose whole practice treats silence as a material. Coming from a maker of voids, mirrors, and surfaces that swallow the viewer’s orientation, the sentence reads less like coyness and more like a boundary. It’s a way of declining the modern demand that artists supply neat captions for experience: a statement, a hot take, a tidy moral.

Kapoor’s work often stages perception itself as the event. His concave mirrors turn you into the subject and the spectacle; his dark, seemingly bottomless forms create an encounter with not-knowing. In that context, "nothing" isn’t emptiness, it’s a deliberate space where interpretation can’t be outsourced to the artist’s language. The subtext is a critique of the culture that treats explanation as value and speech as proof of seriousness. If you can’t paraphrase it, the thinking goes, maybe it isn’t there. Kapoor pushes back: the “there” is in the looking, not the lecture.

There’s also a power move embedded in the understatement. Artists are constantly pressed to perform accessibility, to translate aesthetic experience into interview-ready slogans. Kapoor’s refusal reasserts autonomy: the work won’t be reduced to a quote, and the audience won’t be let off the hook. The silence isn’t passive; it’s an invitation with teeth.