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 DENESI wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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