My work is about helping humanity.
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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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 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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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 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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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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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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