One 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.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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 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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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