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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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 DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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