I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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 always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 don’t hurt what they love.
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