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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.

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.


Anish Kapoor  Anish Kapoor
Tags: Art  Experience  Great  Come  Seems  Out 

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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA, Kt (born 12 March 1954) is a British[1] sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Bombay,[2][3] 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.

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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.

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 Tags: Fear God Myself Day Me Know
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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

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 Tags: Work Moments Very Few Out Other
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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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 Tags: World Problems Meaning Look Enough
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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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 Tags: Darkness Me Within Principal Carry
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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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 Tags: Work Story Meaning Circle Without
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

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 Tags: Eye Quick Very Instrument Ear Much
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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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 Tags: Freedom Artist Number Liberation
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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

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