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There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
Agnes Denes
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Agnes Denes
Age: 86
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet.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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When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, Do you remember Agnes?
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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.
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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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People have too many problems during the day they don't want to think.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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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 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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I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
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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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