Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA,is a British-Indian 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...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 March 1954
CountryIndia
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The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
art ideas doe
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.
reviews critics stride
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
levels red grew
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.
thinking important important-things
The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.
talking skins sculpture
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
thinking artist expression
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 important stories
It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
spiritual space fuzzy
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
feelings emptiness knows
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
luxury doe aesthetic
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
stories neurosis
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
years two lines
I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
artist agendas
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work