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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
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Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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 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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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 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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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