People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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