If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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