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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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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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