My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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