Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESAnything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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 always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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