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 studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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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 wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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