I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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