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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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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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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 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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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, 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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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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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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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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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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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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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