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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
Anish Kapoor
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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
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Bombay
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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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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'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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