When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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 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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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