I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESAnd 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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