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Anish Kapoor

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

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

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"Be content to seem what you really are."

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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."

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

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Anish Kapoor
"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 artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic."

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Anish Kapoor
"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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Anish Kapoor
"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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Anish Kapoor
"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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Anish Kapoor
"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."

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Anish Kapoor
"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

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"My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing."

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