Indian - Artist | March 12, 1954 -
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
Anish 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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I feel there's everything to do yet.
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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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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
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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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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
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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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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.
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I, in the end, make art for myself.
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