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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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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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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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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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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 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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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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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 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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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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