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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
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
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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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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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 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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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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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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