I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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