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.
AGNES DENESI always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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 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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