I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESPhilosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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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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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 wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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