People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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