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.
AGNES DENESPublic 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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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