Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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And 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.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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