People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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