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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.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
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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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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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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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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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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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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
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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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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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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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