I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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 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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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