I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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