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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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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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It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
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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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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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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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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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