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.
AGNES DENESI had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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