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 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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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