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.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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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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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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