Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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 always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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