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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
Anish Kapoor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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 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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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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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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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