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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
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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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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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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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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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'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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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 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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