When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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