91 Quotes by Anish Kapoor


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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.

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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.

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

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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

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    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

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    The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

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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

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