People always understand everything in retrospect.
AGNES DENESIf 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.
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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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 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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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