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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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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
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Bombay
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
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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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