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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
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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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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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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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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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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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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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