I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
AGNES DENESSociety likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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 like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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