I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESAnd 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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