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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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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
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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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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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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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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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