I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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