I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENESIf I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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 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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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