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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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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
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