People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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