People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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