Creativity Quote by Anish Kapoor

Kapoor is slipping a quiet provocation under the guise of craft advice: vision is the bully sense. In a culture trained on images that arrive pre-digested, the eye doesn’t negotiate; it seizes. “Very quick” isn’t praise so much as diagnosis. The eye “gets it immediately” because contemporary looking has been engineered for instant capture - advertising, screens, spectacle - and the viewer’s body responds before the mind can assemble a sentence. Kapoor’s work, so often built around voids, mirror-polished surfaces, and saturated pigment, exploits that speed: you’re hooked first by a hit of color or an impossible depth, then left to deal with the aftershock.

The ear, by contrast, demands time. Sound unfolds; it forces sequence, patience, interpretation. Kapoor’s comparison quietly argues that art made for looking has a built-in advantage - but also a risk. If the eye is too quick, it can mistake impact for understanding. His best pieces stage that trap: you think you’ve “got it,” then the object destabilizes you. A reflective concavity turns you into the content; a dark cavity refuses depth cues; scale scrambles orientation. The immediate read becomes unreliable.

Subtext: Kapoor isn’t surrendering to superficiality; he’s weaponizing perception. He’s reminding us that visual art begins as a physiological event, not a thesis statement. The intent is to pull viewers into a fast, bodily certainty - and then force them to confront how flimsy that certainty is.