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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
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Bombay
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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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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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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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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 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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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