There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
AGNES DENESSociety likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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