Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESWhat 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.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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