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.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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 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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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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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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