People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESAnd combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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