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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
Architect
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Bombay
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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 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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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