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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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Sir 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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Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
Anish Kapoor
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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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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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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
Anish Kapoor
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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