People don’t hurt what they love.
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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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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