I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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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