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

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
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 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 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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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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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