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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
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Bombay
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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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'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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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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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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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
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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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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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