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Anish Kapoor Inspirational Quotes (47)

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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
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The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.
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