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Anish Kapoor Inspirational Quotes (47)

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I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
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Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.
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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
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