Most wonderful things are unconscious.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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 like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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.
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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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