Anish Kapoor Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Years, Games

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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

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Half

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• I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Being The Best, Enough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

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• If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

  Anish Kapoor

  Reviews, Critics, Stride

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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.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Currents, Contemporary

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

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Roles, Pursue

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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

  Anish Kapoor

  Feelings, Emptiness, Knows

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• 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

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Years, Work Out

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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.

  Anish Kapoor

  Blessing, Boredom, Trying

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• What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

  Anish Kapoor

  Doe, Looks, World

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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.

  Anish Kapoor

  Reality, Hands, Accents

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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?

  Anish Kapoor

  Spiritual, Space, Iconography

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• One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

  Anish Kapoor

  Believe, Artist, Mythology

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• If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

  Anish Kapoor

  Talking, Skins, Sculpture

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• It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Important, Stories

  "Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor lead London walk of compassion for refugees" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2015.

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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 Kapoor

  Levels, Red, Grew Up

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com. 2003.

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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

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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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.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Ideas, Doe

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

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Agendas

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• My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

  Anish Kapoor

  Stories, Neurosis

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• I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

  Anish Kapoor

  Powerful, Proud, Life Is

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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

  Anish Kapoor

  Luxury, Doe, Aesthetic

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