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.
AGNES DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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