Anish Kapoor Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.”
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“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form”
-- Anish KapoorSource : Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.
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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 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 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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“If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,”
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“That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.”
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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.”
-- Anish KapoorSource : Source: m.cubs.mlb.com
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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 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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“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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“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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“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”
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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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“There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.”
-- Anish KapoorSource : "Anish Kapoor Opens the Door: Modern Artist Creates Monuments that Transcend Space & Time" by Chad Stuemke, chadstuemke.com. April 9, 2011.
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“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.”
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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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“It's the role of the artist to pursue content”
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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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“Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important”
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