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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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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Visual Artist
Bombay
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
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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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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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