Anish Kapoor Quotes

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Anish Kapoor

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 12, 1954

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

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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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I, in the end, make art for myself.

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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

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All ideas grow out of other ideas.

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I feel there's everything to do yet.

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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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It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Anish Kapoor

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

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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 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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The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

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There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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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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