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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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 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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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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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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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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 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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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