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.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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 always understand everything in retrospect.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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