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I, in the end, make art for myself.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Scenographer
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Art
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The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
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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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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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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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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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 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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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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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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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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