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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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 am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.
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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 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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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