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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.

Anish Kapoor

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
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Bombay
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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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I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
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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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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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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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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
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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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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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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
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