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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
Indian
Proud
Rich
Powerful
Life

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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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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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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 the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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