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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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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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