Agnes Denes Quotes

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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. I didn't get…
• I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
• 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,…
• 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…
• Most wonderful things are unconscious.
• I never considered myself a performance artist.
• People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
• My work is about helping humanity.
• Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and…
• People don't hurt what they love.
• I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine…
• People always understand everything in retrospect.
• When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"
• I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
• The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my…
• Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left…
• There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.
• I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
• 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…
• If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

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