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.
AGNES DENESThinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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