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Artist Quotes by Anish Kapoor
- Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
- It's the role of the artist to pursue content
- Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many…
- 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
- I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
- Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80
- One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
- I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
- We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
- That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
- 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…
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