I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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