Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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.
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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 have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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