The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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 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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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