Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish KapoorRead
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
Interpretation
Art is a personal expression rather than solely a means to please or cater to the audience.
Anish Kapoor emphasizes that the true essence of creating art lies in personal expression and experience. While he acknowledges the importance of the viewer, he suggests that the motive behind art should stem from the artistβs own vision and creativity, rather than a desire for validation or approval from an audience.
In practice
During a gallery opening when discussing the intentions behind the artwork.
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.
Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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