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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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Bombay
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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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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
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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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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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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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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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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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 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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