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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by 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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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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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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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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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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 work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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