Anish Kapoor Quotes (42 quotes)

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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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„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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„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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„The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.“
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„One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.“
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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 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 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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„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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„It's the role of the artist to pursue content.“
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„If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.“
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„I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.“
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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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„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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„I, in the end, make art for myself.“
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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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„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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„There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.“
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„The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.“
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„Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.“
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Anish Kapoor
Author born: November 30, 1953
Nationality: Indian
Author Profession: Artist

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