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.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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 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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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