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.
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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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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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