If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.

Anish Kapoor

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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

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residents kind darkness

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

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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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involvement circles stories

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

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red body way

All ideas grow out of other ideas

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grows ideas

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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viewers sculpture circles

I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

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intelligent people art

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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architecture creative art

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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space jobs thinking

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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roles artist world

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

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concerned people art

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

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mathematical-logic form kind

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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sculpture space body

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

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grows moments

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

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freedom artist numbers

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

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consideration far-away matter

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

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artist journey thinking

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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I, in the end, make art for myself.

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ego ends art

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

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