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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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