When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESWords 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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