I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESI had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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 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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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