The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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 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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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