Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESI had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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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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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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