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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

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It is almost as if the 49-year-old global Indian was an alien in his place of birth.

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

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Architects have always hoped to find a way to skip that stage between design and finished building.

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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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Germans have a rather healthy respect for the arts and artists, [could] not be more different from the British perspective.

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It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly

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It is more than a month that he's been completely disappeared. It is a true tragedy. Accuse him of something. Give him a lawyer. Let him defend himself …

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In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy.

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It is precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… [to] either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

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It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too.

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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
- India-born artist sculpts landmark symbol for museum.

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I wake up early, does some meditation, take my children to school, and then go to the studio to begin my day's work. The food for his soul is typically India, but with lots of salad on the side.

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