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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Jewelry Designer
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Visual Artist
Bombay
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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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The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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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 must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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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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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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