There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
AGNES DENESPhilosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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