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I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Am Indian Life Powerful Proud Rich I Am

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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.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Always Artist Attempt Fractured Live Make Role Seen Wholeness World

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

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Bodies Colour Course Inside Interior Our Out Red Way

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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.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Always Artist Beyond Decorative Facade Felt Get Going Seriously Take Vocation You

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I, in the end, make art for myself.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Art End In The End Make Myself

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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

Topics: Anywhere Boredom Drives Either Get Host Know Moments Possibilities Precisely Somewhere Those Try

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

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Topics: Important Insight Little Moments Own Very

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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

Topics: About Colour Felt Grew Indian Level Maybe Other Recognise Red Some Strongly Things Those Up Very

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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Ear Eye Gets Immediately Instrument Much Quick Quicker Than Very

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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

Topics: Deeper Deeper Meaning Does Enough Got Look Meaning Oneself Pose Problems Reason Series Some Studio Stuff Thing World

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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