My work is about helping humanity.
AGNES DENESOne 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.
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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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 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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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