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.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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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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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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