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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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