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Anthony Caro - 'I want to continue looking forward until I die' (7/53)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Abstract sculptor Anthony Caro (1924-2013) was born in England. His characteristic method of sculpture involved the use of prefabricated metal. An influential tutor, Caro taught at St Martin’s School of Art.  He was knighted in 1987. [Listener: Tim Marlow; date recorded: 2005]

TRANSCRIPT: [TM] When you look back at works that you've made though over the last few decades, did they feel things that seem very remote to you now? Do... do they all... can you almost not relate to having created them?

They mean nothing to me. They... it's... the past means nothing to me. Don't let's... I mean, you know, I remember early on saying, ‘I never want... I never want to make an abstract sculpture; I always want to make a figurative sculpture because I... because I believe in people and believe in that’. And... and, you know, that's why the show at the Tate where I'm showing old things, it was a bit of a shock to see some of these coloured sculptures which I haven't done for so long and that would say something to me perhaps. But they're not really you... they're not really me. What's really me is what I'm making today and what I'm going to make on Monday, what I'm starting to do on Monday, say. That's interesting. The past is not interesting, particularly. Not for me, it's not. And then I think it's... it’s not quite true of one's life because obviously, you know, you've got your family and all that stuff, and I've lived in this house for ever – for fifty years or something. But I've really... I really... I really want to look forward. I really want to look forward, and I want to continue looking forward until I die.

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