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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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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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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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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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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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