Quotes by Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

British Indian sculptor

Lived from: 1954 -

Category: Artists

Born: 12 march 1954

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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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  • One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
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  • One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
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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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  • Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
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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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  • The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
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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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  • There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
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  • We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
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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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  • Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
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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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