People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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