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.
AGNES DENESThinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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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 have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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