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Anish Kapoor

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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


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


— Anish Kapoor


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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


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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


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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


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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


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One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.


— Anish Kapoor


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


— Anish Kapoor


#any #artist #believe #must #mythologies

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


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Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.


— Anish Kapoor


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And thinking about making nothing which I see as a void. Some his work blurs the boundaries between architecture and art. See also
Scheps v Fine Art Logistics Ltd


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"Anish Kapoor ProfileInterview and Artworks".

Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate Millennium Park Chicago Sky Mirror exhibited at the Rockefeller Center New York in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in 2010 Temenos at Middlehaven Middlesbrough Leviathan at the Grand Palais in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit commissioned as a permanent artwork for the Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Born in Mumbai Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Anish Kapoor was elected a Royal Academician in 1999 and in 2003 he was made a Commander of the British Empire.

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