Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESI wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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