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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
Artist
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Feel
Feels
World
Symbolic

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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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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
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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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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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