So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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 are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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