Anish Kapoor
Artist
1954-03-12
Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor known for large-scale public artworks and conceptual sculpture. His major works include Cloud Gate in Chicago.
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Quotes by Anish Kapoor
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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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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
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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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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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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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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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