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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

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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
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
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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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It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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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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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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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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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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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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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'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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