I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
AGNES DENESI’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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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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