I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESWhen I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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 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 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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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