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 DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on 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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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