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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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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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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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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'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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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