Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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