Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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