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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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Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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'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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
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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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