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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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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Bombay
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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