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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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Darkness #Kind #Residents
“Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Body #Red #Way
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Architecture #Mythology
“One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #People #Concerned
“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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Years #Games
“The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Circles #Stories #Involvement
“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

#Art #Currents #Contemporary
“One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Believe #Artist #Mythology
“I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Agendas
“Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Logic #Kind #Form
“My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Stories #Neurosis
“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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Luxury #Doe #Aesthetic
“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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Years #Two #Lines
“All ideas grow out of other ideas”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Ideas #Grows
“If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Talking #Skins #Sculpture
“That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Freedom #Artist #Numbers
“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.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Levels #Red #Grew Up
“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.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Thinking #Expression
“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.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Art #Ideas #Doe
“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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Years #Two #Half
“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”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Darkness #Sublime #Interest
“I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Powerful #Proud #Life Is
“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Space #Sculpture #Body
“Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Matter #Far Away #Consideration
“There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Circles #Sculpture
“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.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Blessing #Boredom #Trying
“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.”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Reality #Hands #Accents
“It's the role of the artist to pursue content”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Roles #Pursue
“One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Spiritual #Space #Iconography
“Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important”
-- Anish Kapoor

#Important #Investing #Littles

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