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

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Source : "Anish Kapoor Opens the Door: Modern Artist Creates Monuments that Transcend Space & Time" by Chad Stuemke, chadstuemke.com. April 9, 2011.

Anish Kapoor

#Circles Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”
“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”

Source : "The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola". Book by Roberto Ridolfi, 1952.
“Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?”
“The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.”
“For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.”
“Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.”
“Dinner theater is anti-culture.”

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