So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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 are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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