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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.

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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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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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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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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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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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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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