I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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 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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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