I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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