If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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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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