Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESSociety likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
AGNES DENESWhat 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.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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.
AGNES DENESI wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESI always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
AGNES DENESAnything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
AGNES DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESMost wonderful things are unconscious.
AGNES DENESI 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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