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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
Anish Kapoor
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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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 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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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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, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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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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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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