Most wonderful things are unconscious.
AGNES DENESAnything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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 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.
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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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