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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Scenographer
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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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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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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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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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
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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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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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 am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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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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I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.
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