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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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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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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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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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