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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.
Agnes Denes
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Agnes Denes
Age: 86
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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. I didn't get involved in it I started what then became a movement.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. 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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet.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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
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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. 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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People have too many problems during the day they don't want to think.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, Do you remember Agnes?
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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. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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