When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESI 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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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