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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Scenographer
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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 feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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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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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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