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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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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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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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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 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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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 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 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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