People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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 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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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