Anish Kapoor quotes - page 3

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. (Anish Kapoor)
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. View quote
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content. View quote
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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important. View quote
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. View quote
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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer. (Anish Kapoor)
It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, [he said] That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting. View quote
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I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly. View quote
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It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too. View quote
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It looks stunning and it does exactly what we hoped.”. View quote
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments. View quote
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. View quote
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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. View quote
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
So that actually adds another dimension but that's not the reason (why he was commissioned). We really felt that the spiritual and immaterial aspects of his work would really make for a strong statement with respect to a work paying tribute to Teddy. View quote
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I've nothing to say. View quote
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I feel there's everything to do yet. View quote
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A piece of vainglorious sub-industrial steel gigantism, signifying nothing.... [artists] may be imaginative... not more than a poet. Poets do not make millions. View quote
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