Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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 don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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