If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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