I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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Words 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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