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 DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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