If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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