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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Bombay
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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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