Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 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, and went into the environment.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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