People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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