I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
AGNES DENESI’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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