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Anish Kapoor Biography

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, 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.

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You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

Day, Emptiness, Feeling, Feelings, God, Knows

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Artist, Decorative, Facade, Seriously, Vocation

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Circle, Circles, Completed, Sculpture, Viewer, Viewers

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

Artist, Being The Best, Enough, Indian, Intent, Interested

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

History, Life, Neurosis, Stories, Work

I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

Art, Further, Intelligent, People, Reach

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Art, Ego, Ends, Make

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things. . . One wants to open the story, not close it.

Artist, Bodily, Journey, Material, Things, Thinking

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

Important, Insight, Investing, Littles, Moments

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Body, Course, Interior, Red, Way

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Important, Important Things, Things, Thinking, Thinks, Working

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

Eureka, Grows, Moments, Work

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

Form, Kind, Logic, Make, Mathematical, Mathematical Logic

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Grow, Grows, Ideas

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.

Accents, Deeper, Food, Hands, Reality, Symbolic

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

Art, Concerned, Make, People

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.

Artist, Bring, Express, Expression, Thinking

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Critics, Review, Reviews, Stride, Take

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Artist, Freedom, Liberation, Number, Numbers, Ways

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

Aesthetic, Day, Doe, Luxury, Studio

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