Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESAnd combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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