There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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