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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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