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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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Agnes Cecilia Denes
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet.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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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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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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There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People have too many problems during the day they don't want to think.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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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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People don't hurt what they love.
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People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. 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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.
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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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