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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

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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
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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 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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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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 really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
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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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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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