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.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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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 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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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