People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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