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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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