So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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