There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
AGNES DENESAnd 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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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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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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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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