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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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 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 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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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by 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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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 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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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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