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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.

Agnes Denes

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Agnes Denes
Age: 86
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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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