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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
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Bombay
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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
Anish Kapoor
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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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 eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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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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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 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 am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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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.
Anish Kapoor
