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.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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