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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

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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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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