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The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
Drawer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Scenographer
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bombay
Sir Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
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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 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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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
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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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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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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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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'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 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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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
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