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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

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
Symbolic
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World

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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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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
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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 can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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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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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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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 am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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