So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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