People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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 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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