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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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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 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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with 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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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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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
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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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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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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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