Anish Kapoor

"These include a select group of Mr. Kapoor's early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time,"

"A drunken party animal of a building and ultimately a celebration of the people of London."

"In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy."

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

"Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's Orbit is a daring, imaginative and exhilarating work of art. It does not deserve to be pilloried – on the contrary, if all British public art were like this, it would …"

"The artist is a magician... nothing short of extraordinary … this is a staggering exhibition by a major artist."

"Everything about the process by which public art is commissioned today militates against the commissioning of good artists and the creation of good art."

"It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly"