If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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