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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

Topics: Almost Almost Nothing Back Came First Half Half Years Making Minutes Next Nothing Show Sold Spent Studio Two Within Years I Came

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

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: About History Life My Life Neurosis Story Work

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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?

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Topics: Cannot Contemporary Fuzzy Make Out Set Some Space Spiritual Work

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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

Topics: Aesthetic Afford All Day Come Day Does Every Every Day Immense Life Luxury Making Oneself Spend Studio

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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

Topics: Almost Almost All Anywhere Art Carry Does Go Going Great Great Idea Had Idea Just Like Made Now Out Set

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

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Am Art Concerned Even Make Other People Though Very Viewer I Am

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

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Topics: About Any Artist Believe Must Oneself Those

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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

Topics: Art Author Come Contemporary Currents Experience Great Out Seems

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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

Topics: Afforded Artist Freedom Himself Huge Huge Number Liberation Number Picasso Psychological Seems Ways

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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

Topics: Carry Darkness Interests Me Principal Sense Subjects Sublime Terror Us Within

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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