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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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Visual Artist
Bombay
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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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 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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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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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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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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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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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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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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