Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESI 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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