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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.

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 feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
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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 cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
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All ideas grow out of other ideas
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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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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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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
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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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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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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
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