If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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