I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESWhat 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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