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.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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