Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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 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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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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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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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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