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."

"I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inef…"