I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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