I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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 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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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