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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?
Anish Kapoor
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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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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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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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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