I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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