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.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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 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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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