Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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