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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 eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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 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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
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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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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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