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 DENESI hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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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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