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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.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
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Bombay
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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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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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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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 feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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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'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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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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 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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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