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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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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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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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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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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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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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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