We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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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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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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