When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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