Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
-
-
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
AGNES DENES -
I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
AGNES DENES -
Most wonderful things are unconscious.
AGNES DENES -
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENES -
People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENES -
People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENES -
There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
AGNES DENES -
I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENES -
We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENES -
Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
AGNES DENES -
People always understand everything in retrospect.
AGNES DENES -
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.
AGNES DENES -
People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENES -
Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENES -
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.
AGNES DENES