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Inspirational Quotes by Anish Kapoor
- There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
- Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
- It's the role of the artist to pursue content
- 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
- Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
- One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
- The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
- 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…
- I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
- My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
- All ideas grow out of other ideas
- I, in the end, make art for myself.
- If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
- The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
- Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
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