People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESOne 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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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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 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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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