Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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