I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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