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Anish Kapoor
Indian
Artist
Born:
Mar 12
,
1954
About
Art
Artist
Make
Work
You
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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.
Anish Kapoor
Me
Darkness
Sense
Carry
Principal
Within
Terror
Subjects
Sublime
Us
Interests
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
World
Problems
Enough
Some
Oneself
Studio
Stuff
Look
Does
Got
Meaning
Reason
Series
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
Thing
Pose
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Anish Kapoor
World
Seen
Live
Attempt
Make
Always
Role
Artist
Wholeness
Fractured
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
Anish Kapoor
Other
Out
Ideas
Grow
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
Try
Somewhere
Those
Possibilities
Boredom
Host
Drives
Know
Get
Precisely
Either
Anywhere
Moments
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Anish Kapoor
Space
Job
Think
About
Something
Understand
Form
Much
Sculptor
Spatial
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
Anish Kapoor
You
Stride
Bad
Bad Review
Take
Review
Get
Your
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
Other
Those
Recognise
Indian
Some
About
Strongly
Colour
Red
Felt
Up
Very
Maybe
Grew
Level
Things
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
Anish Kapoor
Work
Me
Darkness
Will
Resonance
Kind
Something
Only
Generate
Deep
Resident
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
Work
Changed
Way
Out
More
Look
Learned
Acceptable
Years
Exotic
Maybe
Artists
Younger
Work Out
Much
Who
Many
Now
Last
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
First
Half
Nothing
Back
Sold
Spent
Minutes
Studio
Almost
Almost Nothing
Half Years
Within
Making
Came
Years
Next
Show
Two
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
Work
Spiritual
Space
Out
Fuzzy
Some
Contemporary
Make
Cannot
Iconography
Set
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
Great
Made
Out
Carry
Great Idea
Had
Almost
Almost All
Idea
Like
Does
Go
Going
Just
Anywhere
Now
Set
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
Art
People
Other
Though
Concerned
Make
Am
Very
Viewer
Even
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
Great
Experience
Out
Seems
Come
Contemporary
Author
Currents
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
Anish Kapoor
Important
Own
Insight
Very
Little
Moments
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor
Freedom
Liberation
Ways
Seems
Picasso
Himself
Huge
Huge Number
Afforded
Artist
Psychological
Number
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