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.
AGNES DENESThere are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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 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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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