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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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 must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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