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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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